Mary Shelley quote about mind from Frankenstein - Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.
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Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.
 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818). copy citation

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Author Mary Shelley
Source Frankenstein
Topic mind knowledge
Date 1818
Language English
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“«I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge. Oh, that I had for ever remained in my native wood, nor known nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat!
«Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death—a state which I feared yet did not understand.” source

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