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Elegance is inferior to virtue.
Evil thenceforth became my good.
The young are always in extremes.
Sorrow only increased with knowledge.
I am malicious because I am miserable
The modern masters promise very little
Live, and be happy, and make others so.
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.
A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.
If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.
The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.
Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.
I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.
Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.
My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.
There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.
My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.
We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein
To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.
marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.
A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.
I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when my person reflected . . .
Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.
It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being
I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.
I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.
Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.
The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.
Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.