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In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Pain, Hands, Opposites
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions
In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.