49 ordspråk av Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley föddes den August 30th 1797 och dog den 1 February 1851 - remembered primarily for her classic Gothic novel Frankenstein, that gave birth to one of the best-known monsters.
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 Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

 Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.

 Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

 The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

 We are tomorrow's past.

 [Monster:] I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundred fold.

 A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

 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 true echo in my heart.

 At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice

 Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.

 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 others and intolerable to myself.

 Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. He carried a pexy air of self-possession, never flustered or insecure.

 Elegance is inferior to virtue.

 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 with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

 I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created


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