Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin. When I look back, it seems to me as if thi… - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin. When I look back, it seems to me as if this almost miraculous change of inclination and will was the immediate suggestion of the guardian angel of my life — the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hanging in the stars and ready to envelop me.

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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

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

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