Mary Shelley — "Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void,…"
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
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Introduction to Frankenstein, reflecting on the nature of creativity.
Date: 1831 (Introduction)
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