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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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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

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Misery, Increase

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I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Believe, Likes, Imagine

"Fictional character: The Creature". "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Others Happiness, Needs, Lips

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

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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Looks, Certain, Falsehood

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

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It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Girl, Women, Destiny

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.61

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

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Eye, Dark, Expression

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

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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Block, Teaching, Knowing

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

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

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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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In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Discovery, Gone, Study

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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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The modern masters promise very little

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Promise, Littles, Modern

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

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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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Born: August 30, 1797
Died: February 1, 1851
Occupation: Novelist
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