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| . . . nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose . . . | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |  |
| "You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been." | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |  |
| Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |  |
| . . . the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places. | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |  |
| It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . . | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |  |
| The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |  |
| "Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!" | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |  |
| My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy. | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |  |
| The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food . . . | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |  |
| "I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create." | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |  |