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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I had never yet seen a being resembling me or who claimed any intercourse with me.
2 No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.
3 I feared to wander from the sight of my fellow creatures lest when alone he should come to claim his companion.
4 My duties towards the beings of my own species had greater claims to my attention because they included a greater proportion of happiness or misery.
5 But on you only had I any claim for pity and redress, and from you I determined to seek that justice which I vainly attempted to gain from any other being that wore the human form.
6 Yes, he had followed me in my travels; he had loitered in forests, hid himself in caves, or taken refuge in wide and desert heaths; and he now came to mark my progress and claim the fulfilment of my promise.
7 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.