"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.35
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