a strange nature knowledge! clings mind seized like a lichen rock. wis — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

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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. 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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

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