Mary Shelley — "How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of l…"
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
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Frankenstein, spoken by Victor Frankenstein, reflecting on the human will to live.
Date: 1818
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