When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking wit… - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with the blood of innocence, believe that they have done a great deed.

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About Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist. She was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and married Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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عرفت حينها أنني لن أستطيع أبدا أن أكون جزءا من أى عائلة، وأدركت انه لن يقبلني أي شخص في العالم بسبب شكلي القبيح. لا يهم أنني أستطيع القراءة أو الكتابة، ولا يهم أنني أستطيع التفكير أو التحدث عن الفلسفة أو موضوعت عظيمة أخرى؛ سيظل الناس يخشونني دائما. وفي تلك اللحظة امتلأ قلبي كرها لك يا فرانكشتاين لأنك جئت بي إلى عالم لن يقبلني أبدا

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The sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around, spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence – and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise.

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