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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

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“We will be monsters, alone in the world, but we will have each other.”

— Mary Shelley, amazon.com

Tagged: monsters, frankenstein

“We will be monsters, alone in the world, but we will have each other.”

— Mary Shelley, amazon.com

Tagged: monsters, Stay By Your Side, Comforting Other People

“We will be monsters, alone in the world, but we will have each other”

— Mary Shelley, amazon.com

Tagged: True Love, Stay By Each Other's Side

“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.”

— Mary Shelley, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams, Refuge, Freedom

“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”

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Tagged: Weeping, Nature, Comfort

“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.”

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Tagged: Miserable, humanity, Soul, Tree

“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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Tagged: monsters, Attachment

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”

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Tagged: Virtue, Misery, Happiness

“I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit wil…”

— Mary Shelley, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, departure, funeral, Spirit, Peace

“I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness…”

— Mary Shelley, amazon.com

Tagged: Misery, Despair, Depression, Bitterness, Loathing

“My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.”

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Tagged: Love, sympathy, Misery, Hatred, Change

“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”

— Mary Shelley, amazon.com

Tagged: Feelings, Success, Life, Death

“Live, and be happy, and make others so.”

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Tagged: live, Living, Life, Happiness, Be Happy

“I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”

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Tagged: heart, Glow, Enthusiasm, purpose, Soul

“The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”

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Tagged: Friendship, Companion, Childhood

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

— Mary Shelley, amazon.com

Tagged: Solitude, Deep, dark

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”

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Tagged: Soul, Change

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Knowledge, Happiness, Native, aspiration, Desire

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

— Mary Shelley, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Despair, anguish

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

— Mary Shelley, amazon.com

Tagged: Fearless, Powerful