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I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Hate, Men, Evil

Evil thenceforth became my good.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Evil
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.263, Collector's Library

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Evil, Disaster, Commencement
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.15

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.

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

What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Fear, Heart, Evil
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “The Evil Eye”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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