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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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  1. Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  2. Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pacifists, and anger has turned many into activists. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  3. What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story. – Billy Marshall
  4. The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  5. My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  6. the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  7. My life, as it passes thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy. O blessed sleep! – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  8. Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  9. For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  10. She saw and marked the revolutions that had been, and the present seemed to her only a point of rest, from which time was to renew his flight. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  11. So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  12. Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  13. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  14. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  15. Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded-”a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  16. I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  17. This advice, although good, was totally inapplicable to my case. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  18. Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it–thus! – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  19. There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  20. The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  21. I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  22. What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  23. Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  24. Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  25. Accursed be he that first invented war. – Christopher Marlowe
  26. I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed. – BoYoung Kim
  27. That bloody bastard! That thrice accursed son of a bitch! – Cornelia Funke
  28. Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced – Siddhartha Mukherjee
  29. Face your monster boldly, the whole world will cheer you on. Run from your monster fearfully, Heaven will cry over your pieces. – Jessiqua Wittman
  30. There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something. – Chloe Thurlow
  31. I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside. – Shirley Jackson
  32. You will always be a monster – there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you. – Julie Kagawa
  33. After all, in this world of humans, he was little better than a monster, and what did a monster have to be afraid of in the dark? – Darren Shan
  34. It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  35. Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  36. Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  37. The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  38. It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world! – Mary Wollstonecraft
  39. Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  40. How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? – Mary Wollstonecraft

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