Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDevil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyBeware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyAlas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyOf what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock."
- Frankenstein p115
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Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTags: solitude consolation mood
I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTags: frankenstein
Do you think, Victor," said he, "that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved your brother"--tears came into his eyes as he spoke--"but is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is also a duty owed to yourself, for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyLife, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTags: life
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