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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 In this house I chanced to find a volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa.
2 In the mean time I worked on, and my labour was already considerably advanced.
3 They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places.
4 I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.
5 I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects.
6 At other times he worked in the garden, but as there was little to do in the frosty season, he read to the old man and Agatha.
7 She found a peasant and his wife, hard working, bent down by care and labour, distributing a scanty meal to five hungry babes.
8 When I returned home my first care was to procure the whole works of this author, and afterwards of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus.
9 When I reflect, my dear cousin," said she, "on the miserable death of Justine Moritz, I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me.
10 In the day, I believe, he worked sometimes for a neighbouring farmer, because he often went forth and did not return until dinner, yet brought no wood with him.
11 She was tranquil, yet her tranquillity was evidently constrained; and as her confusion had before been adduced as a proof of her guilt, she worked up her mind to an appearance of courage.
12 I revolved in my mind the events which I had until now sought to forget: the whole train of my progress toward the creation; the appearance of the works of my own hands at my bedside; its departure.
13 Clerval eagerly desired to accept this invitation, and I, although I abhorred society, wished to view again mountains and streams and all the wondrous works with which Nature adorns her chosen dwelling-places.
14 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 certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
15 Idleness had ever been irksome to me, and now that I wished to fly from reflection, and hated my former studies, I felt great relief in being the fellow-pupil with my friend, and found not only instruction but consolation in the works of the orientalists.
16 I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest practical advantage.