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Quotes From 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley

Seema Nehete

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"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

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"There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand."

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"Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."

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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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"What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?"
"I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing."
"Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together."

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"You may give up your purpose; but mine is assigned to me by heaven, and I dare not."
"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."

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"He seems to feel his own worth, and the greatness of his fall."

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"If I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness."
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

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"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility."