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• Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Devil, Arms, Vengeance

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.78

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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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• Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

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  Ideas, Invention, Capacity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.342, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

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  May, Accumulation, Dear

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.206, DOSER Reads

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• The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections of the pupil, who puts forth, as a parasite, tendrils by which to cling, not knowing to what - to a supporter or a destroyer.

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  Block, Teaching, Knowing

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.39

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• 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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  Leadership, Knowledge, Rocks

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• The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.

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  Halloween, Moon, Midnight

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.43, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

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  Misery, Increase

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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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• Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

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  Loneliness, Tranquility, Charm

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore, by the author of 'Frankenstein'.”, p.13

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• ...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.

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  Others Happiness, Needs, Lips

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus”, p.197, First Avenue Editions

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• When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

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  Looks, Certain, Falsehood

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.190, DOSER Reads

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• To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

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  Firsts, Causes, Recourse

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.40

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• None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

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  Enticement

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

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• I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.

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  Communication, Eye, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.11, DOSER Reads

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• My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

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  Dream, Writing, Fantastic

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.7

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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.

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  Eye, Dark, Expression

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.14

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• Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

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  Life, Atheism, Hated

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.401, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

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  Quality, Excellent, Form

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.184, Prestwick House Inc

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• I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

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  Misery, Made, Make Me Happy

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.207, DOSER Reads

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• He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

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  Distance, Darkness, Wave

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.267, Collector's Library

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• Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

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  Soul, Feelings, Mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.76, Orchises Press

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• But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Moon, Clouds, Brightness

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.70

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• It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sorrow, Care, Tasks

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet Todd (1989). “The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft”, NYU Press

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• The modern masters promise very little

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  Promise, Littles, Modern

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.73, DOSER Reads

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