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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes - Page 5

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.120, Collector's Library

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1830). “The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance”, p.52

Sorrow only increased with knowledge.

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

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.167

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.

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

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

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

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

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

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