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

—  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley94
English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, … 1797–1851

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