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What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.

- The Evil Eye


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must
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I shall partner you no more.

I shall watch anoth...
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From her thighs, she gives you life
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“What do you want with Sam?”
“I can’t take care ...
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within my heart.
She plays immaculately
with the beauty in my soul.
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The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
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C. JOYBELL C. Her fingertips dug into his shoulders as she pressed closer. Then her lips parted to his, and there ...
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY We are tomorrow's past.
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they l...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Virtue can only flourish among equals.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and in...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadl...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of i...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain ...
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their bro...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morali...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast pr...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I aim at being useful, and sincerity will render me unaffected; for, wishing rather to persuade by t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY SHELLEY My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
MARY SHELLEY The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery c...
MARY SHELLEY Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
MARY SHELLEY The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
MARY SHELLEY I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY SHELLEY I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appen...
MARY SHELLEY Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent o...
MARY SHELLEY And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for ...
MARY SHELLEY My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea...
MARY SHELLEY What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my mid...
MARY SHELLEY Elegance is inferior to virtue.
MARY SHELLEY It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their mind...
MARY SHELLEY There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
RACHEL SHELLEY I do have a fantasy piece of technology that would do my food shopping for me, and if you wanted to,...
RACHEL SHELLEY I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now.
RACHEL SHELLEY Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the...
RACHEL SHELLEY We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
RACHEL SHELLEY I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.
RACHEL SHELLEY I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. I...
RACHEL SHELLEY Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
RACHEL SHELLEY I replaced someone on 'Days of our Lives' once, and the fans hated me. She was a redhead, I ...
SHELLEY HENNIG I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.
SHELLEY WINTERS In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all th...
SHELLEY WINTERS I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
SHELLEY WINTERS I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza...
SHELLEY HENNIG Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
PERCY SHELLEY It was so cold I almost got married.
SHELLEY WINTERS Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.
SHELLEY BOVEY Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
SHELLEY WINTERS If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
SHELLEY LONG He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform wh...
GEORGE SHELLEY I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.
SHELLEY HENNIG I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband ...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or y...
SHELLEY DUVALL People ask me, 'How's 'Teen Wolf?' and I tell them it's literally the best job I...
SHELLEY HENNIG We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.
SHELLEY DUVALL I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
SHELLEY FABARES The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to d...
SHELLEY BERMAN And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create ...
SHELLEY DUVALL Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But...
SHELLEY DUVALL Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.
SHELLEY DUVALL While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subvert...
KEVIN SHELLEY Where do you go to get anorexia?
SHELLEY WINTERS Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.
BRUCE SHELLEY a fraternity house. ... He wants you to have a good time whether you're working or not.
BRUCE SHELLEY My boss thinks it's the best entertainment product Microsoft's ever made,
BRUCE SHELLEY They just want to have the action.
BRUCE SHELLEY We do listen to the feedback quite a bit, ... We have at least one or two full-time people who are m...
BRUCE SHELLEY I got into this business to make games that I wanted to play. Turns out that there's millions of peo...
BRUCE SHELLEY We went as high as we could. We were actually putting graphic effects in here you couldn't see on an...
BRUCE SHELLEY The programming team set out to make the best-looking PC game ever.
BRUCE SHELLEY We haven't announced anything and we don't really have anything in development, but we're experiment...
BRUCE SHELLEY We want to do new kinds of games and do new and different things. We've been doing the same game for...
BRUCE SHELLEY I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when w...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
SHELLEY DUVALL