"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"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."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.41
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