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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid.
2 This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it.
3 My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement.
4 My sensations had by this time become distinct, and my mind received every day additional ideas.
5 When alone, Safie resolved in her own mind the plan of conduct that it would become her to pursue in this emergency.
6 He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain.
7 When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.
8 I fear that he will become an idler unless we yield the point and permit him to enter on the profession which he has selected.
9 The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.
10 My return had only been delayed so long, from an unwillingness to leave Clerval in a strange place, before he had become acquainted with any of its inhabitants.
11 Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
12 She was the living spirit of love to soften and attract; I might have become sullen in my study, rought through the ardour of my nature, but that she was there to subdue me to a semblance of her own gentleness.
13 As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil, benevolence and generosity were ever present before me, inciting within me a desire to become an actor in the busy scene where so many admirable qualities were called forth and displayed.
14 The busy stage of life, the virtues of heroes, and the actions of men were his theme; and his hope and his dream was to become one among those whose names are recorded in story as the gallant and adventurous benefactors of our species.
15 Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, 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 become greater than his nature will allow.
16 Sometimes I grew alarmed at the wreck I perceived that I had become; the energy of my purpose alone sustained me: my labours would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete.
17 When I had arrived at this point and had become as well acquainted with the theory and practice of natural philosophy as depended on the lessons of any of the professors at Ingolstadt, my residence there being no longer conducive to my improvements, I thought of returning to my friends and my native town, when an incident happened that protracted my stay.
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