Mary Shelley

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate August 30, 1797

Zodiac Virgo

Location London, United Kingdom

Country England

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I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

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nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose . . .

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If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

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If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

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In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

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I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

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A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

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A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

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