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Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!

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Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly ne...

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the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

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I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.

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The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.

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Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

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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. Many things I read surpassed my understanding and experience. I had a very confused knowledge of kingdoms, w...

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The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.

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There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

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What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?

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The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

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Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

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Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

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One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being...

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But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy; and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate ...

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Shall each man," cried he, "find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man! You may hate, but beware! Your hours will pass in dread and misery...

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A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

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I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.

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