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I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Connections, Topics, Intrusion

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Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Ideas, Invention, Capacity

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.342, ReadHowYouWant.com

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It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Character, Wish, May

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My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Farewell, Sleep, Thinking

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus”, p.342, The Floating Press

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One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Deny, Companion, Horrible

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.111, Wordsworth Editions

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He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Remembrance

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”, p.278

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My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Children, Father, Struggle

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

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In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Pain, Hands, Opposites

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

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The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

People, Imagination, Secret

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus”, p.24, First Avenue Editions

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I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Heart, Moon, Light

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.141, Orchises Press

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The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Law, Speak, Guilty

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

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From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Eagles, Wings, Birth

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.10

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Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Grief, Humanity, Despair

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1826). “The last man, by the author of Frankenstein”, p.158

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Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Love, Self, Feelings

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Running, Strong, Children

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

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The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some modern prints, copied with tasteless servility after the antigue; the soul is left out, and none of the parts are tied together by what may properly be termed character.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Fashion, Attitude, Character

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Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Self, Principles, World

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.55

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It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.

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Ambition, Reality, Views

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Easyread Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Knowledge, Science, Wish

Frankenstein Letter 4 (1818)

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There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Garden, Sight, Venice

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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Writing, Dark, Creating

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.10

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Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Would Be, World, Endeavor

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

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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Dark, Light, Break Through

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.42

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My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost to which I am impassive. You will find near this place, if you follow not too tardily, a dead hare; eat and be refreshed. Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure until that period shall arrive.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Ice, Over You, Enemy

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.156, Wordsworth Editions

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I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Eye, Secret, Wonder

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.46, Powell Publications, LLC

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Born: August 30, 1797
Died: February 1, 1851
Occupation: Novelist
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