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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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Soul, Ruins, Prosperity

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

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Distance, Darkness, Wave

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

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  Inquiry, Becoming, Cowardice

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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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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• My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

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  Reading, Neglected

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Susan J. Wolfson, Ronald Levao (2012). “The Annotated Frankenstein”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Long, Solitude, Half

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.199, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when my person reflected . . .

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Persons

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• Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all.

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  Grief, Light, Color

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1826). “The last man, by the author of Frankenstein”, p.197

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• What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

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  Scary, Midnight, Needs

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.345, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I expected this reception. 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 art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

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  Sports, Art, Hate

  Frankenstein ch. 10 (1818)

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• A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Mind, Study, Capacity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.80, DOSER Reads

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• I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Years, Names, Paradise

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.10, Prestwick House Inc

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