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I was benevolent and good misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos the materials must in the first place be afforded it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.
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It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
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All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
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None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.
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You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
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Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!
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If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.
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My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
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Her countenance was all expression her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.
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The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation I am alone.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock. - Frankenstein p115
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