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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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2 Do you," said I, "enjoy yourself, and let this be our rendezvous.
3 Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world.
4 Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension.
5 This whole winter, instead of being spent in study, as you promised yourself, has been consumed in my sick room.
6 I am happy to remark, my dear son, that you have resumed your former pleasures and seem to be returning to yourself.
7 Elizabeth read my anguish in my countenance, and kindly taking my hand, said, "My dearest friend, you must calm yourself."
8 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.
9 Even now I weep to think that, borne down as you are by the cruellest misfortunes, you may stifle, by the word 'honour,' all hope of that love and happiness which would alone restore you to yourself.
10 I knew my silence disquieted them, and I well remembered the words of my father: "I know that while you are pleased with yourself you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you."
11 If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
12 I do not know that the relation of my disasters will be useful to you; yet, when I reflect that you are pursuing the same course, exposing yourself to the same dangers which have rendered me what I am, I imagine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale, one that may direct you if you succeed in your undertaking and console you in case of failure.
13 You have travelled; you have spent several years of your life at Ingolstadt; and I confess to you, my friend, that when I saw you last autumn so unhappy, flying to solitude from the society of every creature, I could not help supposing that you might regret our connection and believe yourself bound in honour to fulfil the wishes of your parents, although they opposed themselves to your inclinations.