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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 You travelled to seek happiness, but a fatality seems to pursue you.
2 I hoped to induce you to grant me a boat with which I could pursue my enemy.
3 I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace and precipitate him into the ocean.
4 These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.
5 I was unable to pursue the train of thought; a thousand feelings pressed upon me, and I wept bitterly.
6 When alone, Safie resolved in her own mind the plan of conduct that it would become her to pursue in this emergency.
7 But my plan was unsettled, and I wandered many hours round the confines of the town, uncertain what path I should pursue.
8 Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.
9 This aroused the stranger's attention, and he asked a multitude of questions concerning the route which the demon, as he called him, had pursued.
10 Here I paused, not exactly knowing what path to pursue, when I heard the sound of voices, that induced me to conceal myself under the shade of a cypress.
11 Such would be my liberty except that in my Elizabeth I possessed a treasure, alas, balanced by those horrors of remorse and guilt which would pursue me until death.
12 Sometimes, with my sails set, I was carried by the wind; and sometimes, after rowing into the middle of the lake, I left the boat to pursue its own course and gave way to my own miserable reflections.
13 My manner as I thus addressed him was impressive but calm; I had formed in my own heart a resolution to pursue my destroyer to death, and this purpose quieted my agony and for an interval reconciled me to life.
14 One secret which I alone possessed was the hope to which I had dedicated myself; and the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.
15 All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination; but by some fatality the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies.
16 I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching and endeavouring to discover the motives which influenced their actions.
17 I knelt on the grass and kissed the earth and with quivering lips exclaimed, "By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the daemon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict."
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