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• My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.

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  Mean, Destination, Solve

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein

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  Half, Made, Creatures

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• I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.

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  Art, Powerful, Eye

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.11

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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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• 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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• 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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• Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

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  Blessing, Expectations, Boredom

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.8

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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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• 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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• Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.

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  Disappointment, Events, Deities

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.42

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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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• 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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• 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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• When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

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  Running, Believe, Angel

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

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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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• 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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• Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

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  May, Accumulation, Dear

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.206, DOSER Reads

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• Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

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  Teaching, Thinking, People

  Quoted in Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, Second Series (1888)

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• Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

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  Mother, Men, Weakness

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet Todd (1989). “The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft”, NYU Press

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• My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

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  Heart, Hatred, Vices

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.187, Orchises Press

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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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• Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!

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  Men, Drunk, Unhappy

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.17, Powell Publications, LLC

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• But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

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  Pain, Feelings, Attention

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Frankenstein”, p.155, Ignatius Press

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