"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind… - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock."
- Frankenstein p115

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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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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My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.

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But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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