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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes: Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.
         

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.


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Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.



Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?




Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.



If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!




I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.



There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.



Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.



My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.





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