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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Those were the last moments of my life during which I enjoyed the feeling of happiness.
2 I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel.
3 They are dead, and but one feeling in such a solitude can persuade me to preserve my life.
4 Chase away your idle fears; to you alone do I consecrate my life and my endeavours for contentment.
5 I desired that I might pass my life on that barren rock, wearily, it is true, but uninterrupted by any sudden shock of misery.
6 The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.
7 But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas' books of voyages.
8 For this purpose I will preserve my life; to execute this dear revenge will I again behold the sun and tread the green herbage of earth, which otherwise should vanish from my eyes forever.
9 I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to hers or my father's happiness, my adversary's designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.
10 I was anxious and watchful, while my right hand grasped a pistol which was hidden in my bosom; every sound terrified me, but I resolved that I would sell my life dearly and not shrink from the conflict until my own life or that of my adversary was extinguished.