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• . . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Childhood, Mind, Miserable

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.232, Powell Publications, LLC

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• A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Men, Independence, Privilege

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore, by the author of 'Frankenstein'.”, p.22

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• There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour - but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.

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  Perseverance, Men, Sea

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Clouds, Shining, Mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

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  Writing, Creating, Doe

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

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  Ambition, Discovery, Tranquility

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2001). “Frankenstein”, p.275, Courier Corporation

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• A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.

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  Sweet, Philosophy, Ambition

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.34

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• My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Halloween, Eye, Light

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.97, DOSER Reads

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• The young are always in extremes.

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  Youth, Young, Extremes

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.62

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• We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Wish, Desire, Doe

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Betty T. Bennett (1980). “The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: "A part of the elect."”, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1980-c1988.

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• The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

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  Wind, Accents, Soothing

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

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• Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?

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  Grief, Rain, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2012). “The Last Man”, p.596, tredition

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• All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

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  Judging, Suffering, Guilty

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.67

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• marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Marriage, Cradle, Graves

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.51

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• I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

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  Ugly, Miserable

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• I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when my person reflected . . .

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Persons

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• It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Men, Heaven, Soul

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.32, Orchises Press

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• With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

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  Inquiry, Becoming, Cowardice

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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• Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

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  Crush, Stars, Memories

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus”, p.153, First Avenue Editions

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• Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is.

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  Regret, Heart, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.21

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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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  Monsters, Frankenstein's Monster, Form

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

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  Reading, Neglected

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Susan J. Wolfson, Ronald Levao (2012). “The Annotated Frankenstein”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Heart, Men, Determined

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2001). “Frankenstein”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Soul, Ruins, Prosperity

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• I am malicious because I am miserable

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Miserable, Malicious

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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