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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
Explore more quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason."

"A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse."

"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."

"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."

"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world."

"My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."

"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."
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