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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 A sod covers his gentle form, and he knows no pain.
2 I writhed under his words, yet dared not exhibit the pain I felt.
3 Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.
4 But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments.
5 In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.
6 Do not let this letter disturb you; do not answer tomorrow, or the next day, or even until you come, if it will give you pain.
7 The government of France were greatly enraged at the escape of their victim and spared no pains to detect and punish his deliverer.
8 I perceived that the words they spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers.
9 After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.
10 I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept.
11 Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime.
12 I felt the greatest ardour for virtue rise within me, and abhorrence for vice, as far as I understood the signification of those terms, relative as they were, as I applied them, to pleasure and pain alone.
13 At this time a slight sleep relieved me from the pain of reflection, which was disturbed by the approach of a beautiful child, who came running into the recess I had chosen, with all the sportiveness of infancy.
14 The labours I endured were no longer to be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery which insulted my desolate state and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure.
15 I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption, but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots which I gathered from a neighbouring wood.
16 My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by arguments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.
17 He raised her and smiled with such kindness and affection that I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature; they were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I had never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions.
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