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Mary Shelley
English
Author
Born:
Aug 30
,
1797
Died:
Feb 1
,
1851
Dreams
Me
Mind
Soul
Which
Will
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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.
Mary Shelley
Woman
Sex
King
Rational
Between
Always
His
Authority
Converse
Them
Stand
Ever
Her
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley
Soul
Mind
Nothing
Eye
Steady
Purpose
Point
Intellectual
Fix
May
Which
Much
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
Mary Shelley
Invention
Chaos
Consist
Out
Must
Admitted
Void
Does
Creating
Humbly
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Shelley
Dreams
Free
Own
Pleasure
My Own
Nobody
Annoyed
Dearest
Were
Refuge
Them
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.
Mary Shelley
Myself
Soul
Humanity
Miserable
Tree
Others
Intolerable
Entered
Wrecked
My Soul
Shall
Soon
Felt
Am
Exhibit
Cease
Survive
Pitiable
Then
Should
Bolt
Spectacle
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
Mary Shelley
Me
Will
Others
Haunted
Only
Had
Terrified
Terrify
Pillow
Which
Midnight
Describe
Spectre
Need
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
Mary Shelley
Dreams
Once
Once More
More
Writings
Were
Than
Fantastic
Agreeable
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Mary Shelley
Life
Death
Me
World
Dark
Light
Pour
First
Our
Torrent
Life And Death
Through
Ideal
Bounds
Break
Which
Should
Appeared
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.
Mary Shelley
Alone
Myself
Will
Topics
Intrusion
Only
Print
Am
Very
Account
Personal
Accuse
Authorship
Confined
In Print
Former
Averse
Production
Forward
Connection
Appear
Hardly
Bringing
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