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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Nothing could exceed in beauty the contrast between these two excellent creatures.
2 During all that period she appeared to me the most amiable and benevolent of human creatures.
3 I feared to wander from the sight of my fellow creatures lest when alone he should come to claim his companion.
4 I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship.
5 If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
6 I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow creatures were high and unsullied descent united with riches.
7 It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.
8 I felt as if I was about the commission of a dreadful crime and avoided with shuddering anxiety any encounter with my fellow creatures.
9 After a long pause of reflection I concluded that the justice due both to him and my fellow creatures demanded of me that I should comply with his request.
10 Everybody believed that poor girl to be guilty; and if she could have committed the crime for which she suffered, assuredly she would have been the most depraved of human creatures.
11 My thoughts now became more active, and I longed to discover the motives and feelings of these lovely creatures; I was inquisitive to know why Felix appeared so miserable and Agatha so sad.
12 Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime.
13 This sentiment of the worth of my nature supported me when others would have been oppressed, for I deemed it criminal to throw away in useless grief those talents that might be useful to my fellow creatures.
14 I left the house, the horrid scene of the last night's contention, and walked on the beach of the sea, which I almost regarded as an insuperable barrier between me and my fellow creatures; nay, a wish that such should prove the fact stole across me.
15 The more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures; to see their sweet looks directed towards me with affection was the utmost limit of my ambition.
16 I endeavoured to crush these fears and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo; and sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathizing with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation.
17 For a few moments I gazed with delight on her dark eyes, fringed by deep lashes, and her lovely lips; but presently my rage returned; I remembered that I was forever deprived of the delights that such beautiful creatures could bestow and that she whose resemblance I contemplated would, in regarding me, have changed that air of divine benignity to one expressive of disgust and affright.
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