Frankenstein QUOTES Flashcards

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‘And was more…

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‘And was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge’

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‘If the multitude…

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‘If the multitude of mankind knew of my existence, they would… arm themselves for my destruction.’

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‘With unrelaxed…

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‘With unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to all her hiding places.’

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‘Crime…

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‘Crime had degraded me.’

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‘My soul…

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‘My soul glowed with love and humanity.’

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‘Unhappy…

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‘Unhappy man! do you share my madness? have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught?’

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‘A new…

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‘A new species would bless me as its creator and source.’

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‘I longed…

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‘I longed to join them, but dared not.’

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9
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‘Success…

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‘Success shall crown my endeavors.’

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‘For the first…

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‘For the first time, also, I felt what duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.’

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‘Have I not…

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‘Have I not suffered enough, that you seek to increase my misery?’

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‘I bitterly…

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‘I bitterly felt that want of a friend.’

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‘Barbarity had…

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‘Barbarity had desolated my heart, and filled it forever with the bitterest remorse.’

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‘Remember…

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‘Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.’

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‘No eve…

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‘No eve soothed my sorrows.’

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‘Many times…

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‘Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition.’

17
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‘My heart…

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‘My heart yearned to be known and loved by the amiable creatures.’

18
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‘I was b…

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‘I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.’

19
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‘My health…

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‘My health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air.’

20
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‘By degrees…

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‘By degrees the calm and heavenly scene restored me.’

21
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‘The delight…

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‘The delight I took in again beholding thy streams, thy mountains, and, more than all, thy lovely lake.’

22
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‘I was… (victor)

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‘I was now alone.’

23
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‘I am… (creature)

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‘I am alone’

24
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‘To learn…

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‘To learn the hidden laws of nature.’

25
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‘I have…

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‘I have lost everything and cannot begin life anew.’