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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I wait but for one event, and then I shall repose in peace.
2 I soon found that I had overtaxed my strength and that I must repose before I could continue my journey.
3 This idea pursued me and tormented me at every moment from which I might otherwise have snatched repose and peace.
4 As night approached I found myself at the entrance of the cemetery where William, Elizabeth, and my father reposed.
5 It appeared to me sacrilege so soon to leave the repose, akin to death, of the house of mourning and to rush into the thick of life.
6 After a slight repose, during which the spirits of the dead hovered round and instigated me to toil and revenge, I prepared for my journey.
7 Several hours passed, and I remained near my window gazing on the sea; it was almost motionless, for the winds were hushed, and all nature reposed under the eye of the quiet moon.
8 Such words, you may imagine, strongly excited my curiosity; but the paroxysm of grief that had seized the stranger overcame his weakened powers, and many hours of repose and tranquil conversation were necessary to restore his composure.
9 His feelings are forever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.
10 When my guest was a little recovered I had great trouble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose restoration evidently depended upon entire repose.