“Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft, book Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
Context: It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust — ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream.

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British writer and philosopher 1759–1797

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