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• And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

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  Grief, Heart, Echoes

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Agony, Feelings, Misery

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”

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• The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.

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  Grief, Play, May

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.35

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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.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Powerful, Men, Evil

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

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• What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.

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  Life, Space, People

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “The Last Man”, p.288, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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• The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

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  Feelings, Different, Human Nature

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Blue, Wind, Wings

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