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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 The day of my departure at length arrived.
2 My affection for my guest increases every day.
3 I spent the following day roaming through the valley.
4 Thus ended a day memorable to me; it decided my future destiny.
5 Such is my journal of what relates to this strange occurrence up to the present day.
6 He then told me that he would commence his narrative the next day when I should be at leisure.
7 One day, when my father had gone by himself to Milan, my mother, accompanied by me, visited this abode.
8 Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realize.
9 From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation.
10 The leaves of that year had withered before my work drew near to a close, and now every day showed me more plainly how well I had succeeded.
11 I have resolved every night, when I am not imperatively occupied by my duties, to record, as nearly as possible in his own words, what he has related during the day.
12 On the third day my mother sickened; her fever was accompanied by the most alarming symptoms, and the looks of her medical attendants prognosticated the worst event.
13 When I was thirteen years of age we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon; the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.
14 You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning the day on which I should expect you.
15 These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.
16 I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts would at least lay the foundations of future success.
17 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.
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