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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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inspirational
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The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.
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Mary Shelley |
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Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"
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Mary Shelley |
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With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
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Mary Shelley |
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I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
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Mary Shelley |
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It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.
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friends
friendship
supporters
fake-friends
judgmental
judgmental-people
support
reliance
defend
speak
judgment
cowardice
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Mary Shelley |
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If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.
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Mary Shelley |
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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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inspirational
desolation
monster
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Mary Shelley |
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Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!
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Mary Shelley |
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It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
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monster
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Mary Shelley |
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Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.
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Mary Shelley |
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Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley |
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The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.
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Mary Shelley |
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I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
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Mary Shelley |
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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be his world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
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Mary Shelley |
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Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
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Mary Shelley |
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I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.
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Mary Shelley |
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if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.
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Mary Shelley |
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It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
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Mary Shelley |
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I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.
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Mary Shelley |
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Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel,..
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pain
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Mary Shelley |
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I am malicious because I am miserable
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malicious
miserable
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Mary Shelley |
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My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.
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reading
letters
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Mary Shelley |
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You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!
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Mary Shelley |
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Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.
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men
frankenstein
determination
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Mary Shelley |
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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
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frankenstein
monster
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Mary Shelley |
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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.
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Mary Shelley |
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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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study
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Mary Shelley |
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The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
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Mary Shelley |
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I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance. It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever--that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voi..
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mourning
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Mary Shelley |
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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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learning
leadership
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Mary Shelley |
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I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.
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Mary Shelley |
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Elizabeth also wept, and was unhappy; but her's also was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.
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Mary Shelley |
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me, "You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes. I had determined, once, that the memory of these evils should die with me; but you have won me to alter my determination."
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Mary Shelley |