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• The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

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  Men, Genius, Failing

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.75, DOSER Reads

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• All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou are bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.

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  Hate, Science, Men

  Frankenstein ch. 10 (1818)

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• Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein

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  Beautiful, Men, Agony

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Frankenstein - The Modern Prometheus”, p.115, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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  Evil, Disaster, Commencement

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.15

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• If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

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  Blow, Wind, Desire

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.201, DOSER Reads

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• The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.

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  Dream, Reality, Mind

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

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• Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.

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  Running, Strong, Children

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.45

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• You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Frankenstein's Monster, Masters, Wedding Night

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

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• Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.

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  Circles, Ties, Despair

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.311, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.

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  Powerful, Men, Evil

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

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• I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

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  Opinion, Argument, Feels

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• I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

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  Life, Men, Identity

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

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• From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.

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  Ambition, Infancy, Lofty

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.167

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• Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.

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  Hero, Heart, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.164, Wordsworth Editions

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• We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.

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  Mother, Father, Believe

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.67

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• And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.

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  Blue, Wind, Wings

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• I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

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  Angel, Adam, Fallen

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.120, Collector's Library

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• I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

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  Monsters, Miserable, Creation

  Frankenstein ch. 5 (1818)

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• Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.

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  Kings, Risk, Impossible

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1830). “The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance”, p.52

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• Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

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  Men, Justice, Murder

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.209, DOSER Reads

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• Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

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  Exclusion, Bliss, Excluded

  Frankenstein ch. 10 (1818)

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• Sorrow only increased with knowledge.

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  Sorrow

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

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• The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere, as shall become to its latest day the air it breathes.

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  Air, Soul, Atmosphere

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

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• Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.

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  Eye, Giants, Faults

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

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• How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

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  Feelings, Excess, Strange

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

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