Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

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• Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

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  Confidence, Powerful, Fear

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• Live, and be happy, and make others so.

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  Compassion

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.72, Prestwick House Inc

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• Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

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  Inspirational, Stay Strong, Motivation

  Frankenstein Letter 1 (1818)

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• There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.

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  Likes, Rage, Should

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• It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

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  Knowledge, Science, Heaven

  Frankenstein ch. 2 (1818)

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• Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.

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  Linked

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1998). “Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus : with connections”, Holt Rinehart & Winston

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• Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

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  Change, Mind, Painful

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.302, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

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  Dream, Annoyed, Pleasure

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.1, Wordsworth Editions

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• The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

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  Angel, Devil, Fallen Angels

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.265, Collector's Library

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• The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

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  Secret, World

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.30, 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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• I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

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  Hate, Men, Evil

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• If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

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  Inspire, Causes, Frankenstein's Monster

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

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• But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

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  Burning, Misery, Feels

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

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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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• There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

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  Soul, Frankenstein's Monster, Shelley

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

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• Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

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  Loneliness, Dark, Solitude

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus”, p.127, The Floating Press

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• It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

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  Cutting, Monsters, Asceticism

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: The Original Story”, p.140, Lettere Animate Editore

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• Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

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  Happiness, Degrees, Goodness

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “The Last Man: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.166, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

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  Travel, Instinct, Solitary

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “The Last Man”, p.583, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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• It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

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  Mind, Looks, Way

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• A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

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  Passion, Perfection, Peaceful

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.44, Wordsworth Editions

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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.

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  Halloween, Eye, Light

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

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

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  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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• How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!

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  Dream, Grief, Heart

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.180

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