"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"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."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions
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