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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I was unable to pursue the train of thought; a thousand feelings pressed upon me, and I wept bitterly.
2 I formed in my imagination a thousand pictures of presenting myself to them, and their reception of me.
3 My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand scents of delight and a thousand sights of beauty.
4 Ten thousand thanks to Henry for his kindness, his affection, and his many letters; we are sincerely grateful.
5 But sleep did not afford me respite from thought and misery; my dreams presented a thousand objects that scared me.
6 I had been calm during the day, but so soon as night obscured the shapes of objects, a thousand fears arose in my mind.
7 I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me.
8 She longed to bid me hasten my return; a thousand conflicting emotions rendered her mute as she bade me a tearful, silent farewell.
9 Fear overcame me; I dared no advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them.
10 In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.
11 I knew that a thousand fearful accidents might occur, the slightest of which would disclose a tale to thrill all connected with me with horror.
12 He revolved a thousand plans by which he should be enabled to prolong the deceit until it might be no longer necessary, and secretly to take his daughter with him when he departed.
13 I was now about to form another being of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness.
14 In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken and strewed on the ground, some entirely destroyed, others bent, leaning upon the jutting rocks of the mountain or transversely upon other trees.
15 I waited for my letters with feverish impatience; if they were delayed I was miserable and overcome by a thousand fears; and when they arrived and I saw the superscription of Elizabeth or my father, I hardly dared to read and ascertain my fate.
16 When my guest was a little recovered I had great trouble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose restoration evidently depended upon entire repose.
17 And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.
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