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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 The pleasant showers and genial warmth of spring greatly altered the aspect of the earth.
2 I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth.
3 I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly.
4 It was indeed a paradise compared to the bleak forest, my former residence, the rain-dropping branches, and dank earth.
5 As the sun became warmer and the light of day longer, the snow vanished, and I beheld the bare trees and the black earth.
6 This frequently took place, but a high wind quickly dried the earth, and the season became far more pleasant than it had been.
7 If, therefore, I could seize him and educate him as my companion and friend, I should not be so desolate in this peopled earth.
8 The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions seem still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth.
9 The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.
10 Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were ineffectual.
11 Nature decayed around me, and the sun became heatless; rain and snow poured around me; mighty rivers were frozen; the surface of the earth was hard and chill, and bare, and I found no shelter.
12 No wood, however, was placed on the earth, which formed the floor, but it was dry; and although the wind entered it by innumerable chinks, I found it an agreeable asylum from the snow and rain.
13 But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.
14 Through this work I obtained a cursory knowledge of history and a view of the several empires at present existing in the world; it gave me an insight into the manners, governments, and religions of the different nations of the earth.
15 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.
16 It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
17 The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food; but a circumstance that happened when I arrived on the confines of Switzerland, when the sun had recovered its warmth and the earth again began to look green, confirmed in an especial manner the bitterness and horror of my feelings.
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