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We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.
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I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.
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A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.
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If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
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I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
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The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.
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These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.
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I was benevolent and good misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
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All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
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