QUOTES by Mary Shelley
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My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.
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I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.
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A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.
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I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe
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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
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The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
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Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115
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A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.
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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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The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.
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I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.
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It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
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If I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.
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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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The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
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Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.
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Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!
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If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.
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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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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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The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.
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Once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.
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There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.
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When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
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The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.
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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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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
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The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
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How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
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