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Frankenstein (1818)
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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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I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
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I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me. I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.
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Lord Byron, who was writing the third canto of Childe Harold, was the only one among us who put his thoughts upon paper. These, as he brought them successively to us, clothed in all the light and harmony of poetry, seemed to stamp as divine the glories of heaven and earth, whose influences we partook with him.
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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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None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.
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"Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"
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I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
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The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
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I heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche and marked the smoke of its passage.
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Chemistry is that branch of natural philosophy in which the greatest improvements have been and may be made.
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I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs...
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The ambition of the enquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.
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I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of causation...
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My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.
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A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone. If your wish is to become really a man of science, and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.
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I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.
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I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when my person reflected...
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From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed.... Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.
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One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought
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From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.
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Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
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My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.
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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?
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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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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
Mary Shelley
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Born:
August 30, 1797
Died:
February 1, 1851
(aged 53)
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