"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"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."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.87
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