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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I was encompassed by a cloud which no beneficial influence could penetrate.
2 But here were books, and here were men who had penetrated deeper and knew more.
3 Still I would penetrate their misty veil and seek them in their cloudy retreats.
4 They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places.
5 In one of these was a small and almost imperceptible chink through which the eye could just penetrate.
6 I have described myself as always having been imbued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature.
7 Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me which nothing could extinguish.
8 The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.
9 But I was enchanted by the appearance of the hut; here the snow and rain could not penetrate; the ground was dry; and it presented to me then as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandemonium appeared to the demons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire.
10 I believe it to be an intuitive discernment, a quick but never-failing power of judgment, a penetration into the causes of things, unequalled for clearness and precision; add to this a facility of expression and a voice whose varied intonations are soul-subduing music.