My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
From Mary Shelley
Elegance is inferior to virtue.
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
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.
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
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.
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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