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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.

— Mary Shelley Frankenstein (1818)

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We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves — such a friend ought to be — do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.

Frankenstein (1818)

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

Frankenstein (1818)

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Frankenstein (1818)

You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes.

Frankenstein (1818)

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