Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley :
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
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Immortality
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Death and Dying
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Anxiety
Gift it
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