Frankenstein Quotes
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Walton's first letter
- you have regarded with such evil forebodings
- increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking
- already far north of London
- cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks
- icy climes
- inspiritied by this wind of promise
- a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty
- a thousand celestial observations
- part of the world never before visited
- conquer all fear of danger or death
- glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven
- my education was neglected
- do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose
- I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path
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Walton's second letter
- How slowly the time passes here
- encompassed as I am by frost and snow
- bitterly feel the want of a friend
- it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated
- my voyage is only now delayed until the weather shall permit my embarkation
- I cannot describe to you my sensations
- impossible to communicate to you a conception of the trembling sensation, half pleasurable and half fearful
- I am preparing to depart
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Walton's third letter
- I write a few lines in haste, to say that I am safe
- floating sheets of ice
- dangers of the region towards which we are advancing
- I so ardently desire to attain
- I will not rashly encounter danger
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Walton's final letter
- surrounded by ice...a very thick fog
- stretched out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end
- watchful with anxious thoughts
- a man on the brink of destruction
- never saw a man in so wretched a condition
- countenance instantly assumed an aspect of the deepest gloom
- constant and deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion
- his words are culled with the choicest art, yet they flow with rapidity and unparalleled eloquence
- not so utterly occupied by his own misery
- 'I have lost everything, and cannot begin life anew' VF to Walton
- calm settled grief
- he will be like a celestial spirit, that has a halo around him
- 'you seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did'
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Chapter 1
- my family is one of the most distinguished
- honour and reputation
- devoted himself to the education of his children
- No creature could have more tender parents than mine
- docile and good...playful as a summer insect
- the most fragile creature in the world
- No youth could have passed more happily than mine
- I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind
- fatal impulse that led to my ruin
- my dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality
- banish disease from the human frame
- render man invulnerable to any but a violent death
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Chapter 2
- the first misfortune of my life occured
- On her death-bed the fortitude and benignity of this admirable woman did not desert her
- My mother was dead, but we had duties which we ought to perform
- one remains who the spoiler has not seized
- as I proceeded, my spirits and hopes rose
- M. Kremp...a little squat man, with a gruff voice and repulsive countenance
- Such were my reflections during the first two or three days spent almost in solitude
- deliver sentences out of a pulpit
- M. Waldman... greatest benevolence...his voice the sweetest I had ever heard
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Chapter 3
- intrinsic love for the science itself
- To examine the causes of life, we must first have a recourse to death
- I am not recording the vision of a madman
- bestowing animation upon lifeless matter
- at last my work be imperfect
- I was encouraged to hope my present attempts would at least lay the foundations of future success.
- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds
- torrent of light into our dark world
- emaciated with confinement
- to have lost all soul or sensation
- tremendous secrets of the human frame
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Chapter 4
- anxiety that almost amounted to agony
- How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe
- these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes
- I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation
- beauty of the dream vanished
- breathless horror and disgust filled my heart
- dismal and wet
- I trembled excessively
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Chapter 5
- I cannot describe to you the uneasiness we have all felt concerning your health
- He meant to please, and he tormented me
- I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds
- my health and spirits had long been restored
- My own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity
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Chapter 6
- tears and wretchedness
- William is dead!
- he is murdered
- livid and motionless: the print of the murderer's finger was on his neck
- not brooding thoughts of vengence against the assassin
- instead festering wounds of our minds
- not with hatred for your enemies
- I wept like a child
- Yet, as I drew nearer home, grief and fear again overcame me
- lightnings playing on the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures
- The storm appeared to approach rapidly
- A flash of lightning illuminated the object
- the filthy daemon to whom I had given life
- He was the murderer! I could not doubt it
- The thunder ceased
- No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night
- Six years before she had been pretty, good-humoured girl, whom everyone loved
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Chapter 7
- During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice, I suffered living torture
- My own agitation and anguish was extreme during the whole trial
- in his hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy
- I could not sustain the horror of my situation
- I rushed out of the court in agony
- The tortures of the accused did not equal mine
- but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom
- the poor victim
- The God of heaven forgive me
- I bore a hell within me
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Volume 2: Chapter 1
- dead calmness of inaction
- The blood flowed freely in my veins
- weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart
- This state of mind preyed upon my health
- shunned the face of man
- deep, dark, death-like solitude
- gave way to my own miserable reflections
- I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake
- Remorse extinguished every hope
- I lived in daily fear
- My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conveived
- extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed
- my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation
- Ruined castles hanging on the precipices...the mighty alps... white and shining pyramids
- habitations of another race
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Chapter 2
- These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving
- ever-moving glacier had produced upon my mind when I first saw it
- A mist covered both that and the surrounding mountains
- Mont Blanc, in awful majesty
- close with him in mortal combat
- disdain and malignity...unearthly ugliness
- furious detestation and contempt
- 'restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!'
- I will glut the maw of death, until it be saitated with the blood of your remaining friends
- I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam
- the fallen angel
- my soul glowed with love an humanity: but am I not alone, miserably alone?
- Oh, praise the eternal justice of man
- the author of your own speedy ruin
- My heart was full
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Chapter 3
- Darkness then came over me
- light poured in upon me
- Before, dark and opaque bodies had surrounded me
- The light became more and more oppressive
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Chapter 8
- Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live?
- I rushed from my hiding place
- saved her, and dragged her to shore
- to restore animation
- This was then the reward of my benevolence
- hellish rage and gnashing of teeth
- eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind
- this little creature was unprejudiced
- imbibed a horror of deformity
- despair to my heart
- my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph
- she shall not escape
- I have learned to work mischief
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Volume 3 Chapter 1
- shifting colours
- descent of the evening star, nor the golden sun-rise
- willowy islands, and saw several beautiful towns
- black woods, high and inaccessible
- tremendous precipices
- verdant islands that relieve the eye
- majestic and strange...divine river
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Chapter 3
- lived loathed his own deformity
- heart failed within me
- light of the moon
- detestation and scorn
- You hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever
- revenge remains
- my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery
- I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom. Man, you shall repent of the injuries you inflict
- I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace
- my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me
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Chapter 7
- I swear to pursue that daemon
- Let the cursed and hellish monster drink deep of agony
- rage choaked my utterance
- I felt as if all hell surrounded me with mockery and laughter
- task enjoined by heavan
- calling on heaven to support me
- distinguished from land by its superior wildness and ruggedness
- hailed with rapture
- exclamations of grief and horror
- I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish to riot in the excess of my despair
- happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair
- miserable and abandoned
- I shall die
- lost in darkness and distance
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