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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Krempe had given me concerning the lectures.
2 Nothing, at this moment, could have given me greater pleasure than the arrival of my father.
3 I gave him pretty nearly the same account of my former pursuits as I had given to his fellow professor.
4 I should not have understood the purport of this book had not Felix, in reading it, given very minute explanations.
5 My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.
6 I checked, therefore, my impatient thirst for sympathy and was silent when I would have given the world to have confided the fatal secret.
7 In rather a too philosophical and connected a strain, perhaps, I have given an account of the conclusions I had come to concerning them in my early years.
8 His gentleness was never tinged by dogmatism, and his instructions were given with an air of frankness and good nature that banished every idea of pedantry.
9 He had heard my story with that half kind of belief that is given to a tale of spirits and supernatural events; but when he was called upon to act officially in consequence, the whole tide of his incredulity returned.
10 A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life.
11 Everything is related in them which bears reference to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view; the minutest description of my odious and loathsome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors and rendered mine indelible.
12 I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.
13 With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the being to which they had given life, added to the active spirit of tenderness that animated both, it may be imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self-control, I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me.