Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
("Frankenstein")
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I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.
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I shall live to improve myself, to take care of my child and to render myself worthy to join him. Soon my weary pilgrimage will begin.
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I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death - a state which I feared yet did not understand.
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He seems to feel his own worth, and the greatness of his fall.
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You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!
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