Mary Shelley Quotes

• You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

  Mary Shelley

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• So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein more, far more, will I achieve; treading the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

  Mary Shelley

  Topics in Soul

• All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.

  Mary Shelley

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• I was their plaything and their idol, and something better their child.

  Mary Shelley

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  Tags in Idol

• Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

  Mary Shelley

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• My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

  Mary Shelley

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• There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

  Mary Shelley

  Topics in Wisdom

• Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

  Mary Shelley

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Mary Shelley (8)

Birth:	30th August, 1797
Death:	1st February, 1851
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Biographer, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Writer

About

Mary Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

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