Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

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Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein · 1818

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FOMO Isolation Unhappiness

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1818

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Mary Shelley

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Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Penguin Classics, 2018, ch. 10.

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Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, 1818, ch. 10.

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Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. — Mary Shelley

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