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His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Women, Abundance, Conversation

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2010). “Notes to the Complete Poetical Work of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.6, The Floating Press

She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Lakes, Sorrow, Earth

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.72, Wordsworth Editions

the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Loneliness, Grief, Loss

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “The Last Man”, p.564, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Lovely, Saws, Causes

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.87

I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Life, Men, Identity

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

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Sympathy, Kindness, Believe

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.104

After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Night, Causes, Generations

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.41