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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.
2 Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die.
3 During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture.
4 Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.
5 These events have affected me, God knows how deeply; but I am not so wretched as you are.
6 Thus I might proclaim myself a madman, but not revoke the sentence passed upon my wretched victim.
7 With new courage, therefore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the seashore.
8 If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
9 Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you.
10 The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.
11 She most of all," said Ernest, "requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched.
12 Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart.
13 I learned from Werter's imaginations despondency and gloom, but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages.
14 But I was doomed to live and in two months found myself as awaking from a dream, in a prison, stretched on a wretched bed, surrounded by jailers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the miserable apparatus of a dungeon.
15 I afterwards learned that, knowing my father's advanced age and unfitness for so long a journey, and how wretched my sickness would make Elizabeth, he spared them this grief by concealing the extent of my disorder.
16 He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature, but I was wretched, helpless, and alone.
17 The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village.
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