Frankenstein

Book · 4 characters · 437 quotes · 1818

Quotes from Frankenstein

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"From your later writings I perceive the greatest exertions of single men."
The Creature Knowledge
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"Science had been the passion of my earlier years."
Victor Frankenstein Education
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"I felt myself swallowed up and lost."
Victor Frankenstein
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"My dreams were at an end; horror and despair had entered my heart."
Victor Frankenstein Dreams
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"It is true we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world."
The Creature Solitude
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"I am the slave of my creature."
Victor Frankenstein Power
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"What does it avail that I am virtuous if I am not happy?"
The Creature
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"I have devoted myself to science and yet I have neglected the science of life."
Victor Frankenstein Wisdom
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"You are my creator, but I am your master—obey!"
The Creature Power
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"I shall go to the vast wilds of South America."
The Creature Adventure
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"The human senses are barriers to our union."
The Creature Relationships
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"But I am not even of the same nature as man."
The Creature
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"My creator, make me happy and I shall again be virtuous."
The Creature Happiness
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"I am satisfied, miserable wretch! You have determined it then."
The Creature
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"I have crossed oceans of land to avoid you, yet you come."
Victor Frankenstein Fear
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"Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension."
Victor Frankenstein Power
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"A being formed in the very poetry of nature."
Victor Frankenstein Nature
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"Learn from me how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge."
Victor Frankenstein Knowledge
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"I have become callous to my own suffering."
Victor Frankenstein Strength
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"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe?"
Victor Frankenstein Death
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"I shall be with you on your wedding night."
The Creature Fear
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"I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me."
The Creature
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"The desert is my dwelling and the only dwelling I can claim."
The Creature Solitude
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"My virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal."
The Creature Relationships
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"I am not evil; I am miserable."
The Creature Philosophy
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"You have denied me the small compensations for existence which are allowed to the meanest of created beings."
The Creature Justice
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"I am malicious because I am miserable."
The Creature Motivation
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"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
The Creature
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"Justine was pious and mild; her eyes were heaven beneath a thick of lashes; and her countenance was ever brightened by a smile of ineffable benignity."
Victor Frankenstein
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"Oh, that I could rouse your indignation and make you join with me in execrating the murderer of your son and of your innocent bride!"
Victor Frankenstein