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.
("Frankenstein")
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The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.
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The sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around, spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence - and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise.
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Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
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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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When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.
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