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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched.
2 This whole winter, instead of being spent in study, as you promised yourself, has been consumed in my sick room.
3 You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall.
4 At length I wandered towards these mountains, and have ranged through their immense recesses, consumed by a burning passion which you alone can gratify.
5 These were wild and miserable thoughts, but I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me and how I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.
6 By the quantity of provision which I had consumed, I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes.
7 I shall quit your vessel on the ice raft which brought me thither and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch who would create such another as I have been.