Frankenstein Key Quotes

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“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
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“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
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“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
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“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
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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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“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
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“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
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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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“Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.”
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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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“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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“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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“It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”
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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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“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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“Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”
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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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“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
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“Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein”
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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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“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
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“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.”
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“I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.”
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“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainties which follow and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”
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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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“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be his world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will al
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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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“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.”
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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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“My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.”
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“Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest?”
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“Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. "
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“You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!”
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Card 2

Front

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

Back

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Card 3

Front

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

Back

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Card 4

Front

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

“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.”

Back

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