“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”
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“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”
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“I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection...”
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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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“The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.”
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“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.”
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“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”
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“And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no tr...”
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“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to...”
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“A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.”
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“Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.”
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“A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.”
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“Elegance is inferior to virtue.”
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“What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.”
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“My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.”
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