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- “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein.
- “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
- “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
- “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.
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Mary Shelley Quotes - BrainyQuote. English - Author August 30, 1797 - February 1, 1851. A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse. Mary Shelley. I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
- Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Confidence, Powerful, Fear.
- Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
- Live, and be happy, and make others so. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Compassion.
- 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.
- "I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. "
- "The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone. "
- "There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand."
- "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818); these are just a few samples, for more quotations from this work, see Frankenstein I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. There is somethi...
I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so frequently asked me—"How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?"
I have chosen my boat, and laid in my scant stores. I have selected a few books; the principal are Homer and Shakespeare — But the libraries of the world are thrown open to me — and in any port I c...
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