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How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a grat measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

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.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

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...
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so viscious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived as noble and godlike.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

I contempleted the lake; the waters were placid, all around was calm and the snowy mountains... the calm and heavenly scene restored me and I continued my journey toward Geneva.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

We cannot without depraving our minds endeavour to please a lover or husband but in proportion as he pleases us.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Continue for the present to write to me by every opportunity: I may receive your letters on some occasions when I need them most to support my spirits.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Do I not deserve an acomplish of some great purpose? ... I prefer glory to every enticement than wealth placed in my path.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

A miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.
—Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"