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“I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“I have learned the language of despair: I have it all by heart, for I am Despair;”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“I believed that by suicide I should violate a divine law of nature,”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“It is only four o’clock; but it is winter and the sun has already set:”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“A great city is a frightful habitation to one sorrowing.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“Might he not many, many years hence, when age had quenched the burning sensations that he now experienced, might he not then be again a father to me?”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“As I grew older books in some degree supplied the place of human intercourse:”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“My fate has been governed by necessity, a hideous necessity.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“Estela Miranda sabía que, aunque los hijos se hacen de a dos, una siempre está sola para traerlos al mundo.”
― Selva Almada, Ladrilleros

“Yet he had one secret hidden from these dear friends; a secret he had nurtured from his earliest years, and although he loved his fellow collegiates he would not trust it to the delicacy or sympathy of any one among them. He loved.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“If he dies with me it is well, and there will be an end of two miserable beings;”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“I feel death to be neart at hand and I am calm.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“In truth I am in love with death;”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“My father had been and his memory was the life of my life.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“Misery was my element, and nothing but what was miserable could approach me;”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“I might find that which I most desired; dear to me if aught were dear, a death-like solitude.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“I would retire to the Continent and become a nun; not for a religion’s sake, for I was not a Catholic, but that I might for ever be shut out from the world.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Uno de los beneficios que la opresión asegura a los opresores es que el más humilde de ellos se siente superior:(…) De igual modo, el más mediocre de los varones se considera un semidiós ante las mujeres.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, El segundo sexo

“La Humanidad es macho, y el hombre define a la mujer no en sí misma, sino con relación a él; no la considera como un ser autónomo.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, El segundo sexo

“La Maga había pretendido inocentemente hacer literatura,”
― Julio Cortázar, Rayuela

“Estábamos bien, y poco a poco empezábamos a no pensar. Se puede vivir sin pensar.”
― Julio Cortázar

“Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos”
― Julio Cortazar, Rayuela

“Los libros van siendo el único lugar de la casa donde todavía se puede estar tranquilo.”
― Julio Cortázar

“Reader, I married him.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre