"I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?"
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"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself."
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"How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!"
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"With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries."
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"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous."
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"I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when my person reflected . . ."
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"Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness."
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"Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth."
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"We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world."
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"From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition."
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"My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine."
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"Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested."
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"We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein"
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"Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein"
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"It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn."
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"Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world."
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"The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature."
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"...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures."
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"The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished."
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"marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love."
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