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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived.
2 As I applied so closely, it may be easily conceived that my progress was rapid.
3 I had not despaired, nor had I yet conceived the idea of returning if set free.
4 None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.
5 She was a Roman Catholic; and I believe her confessor confirmed the idea which she had conceived.
6 No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success.
7 No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent, cold and wet, in the open air.
8 But so blind is the experience of man that what I conceived to be the best assistants to my plan may have entirely destroyed it.
9 My aunt conceived a great attachment for her, by which she was induced to give her an education superior to that which she had at first intended.
10 Yet do not suppose, because I complain a little or because I can conceive a consolation for my toils which I may never know, that I am wavering in my resolutions.
11 Ever since the fatal night, the end of my labours, and the beginning of my misfortunes, I had conceived a violent antipathy even to the name of natural philosophy.
12 My imagination was vivid, yet my powers of analysis and application were intense; by the union of these qualities I conceived the idea and executed the creation of a man.
13 I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.
14 I look on the hands which executed the deed; I think on the heart in which the imagination of it was conceived and long for the moment when these hands will meet my eyes, when that imagination will haunt my thoughts no more.
15 We had scarcely visited the various lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland and conceived an affection for some of the inhabitants when the period of our appointment with our Scotch friend approached, and we left them to travel on.
16 For a long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments; but when I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased and I turned away with disgust and loathing.
17 You may conceive my astonishment on hearing such a question addressed to me from a man on the brink of destruction and to whom I should have supposed that my vessel would have been a resource which he would not have exchanged for the most precious wealth the earth can afford.
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