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10 Cards in this Set
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As a child... "The world" .."was to me a secret which i desired to divine" "Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature... are among the earliest sensations I can remember" |
Trying to make us feel that we can't blame him for his ways, je was always like this :/ |
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"Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction" |
Potent- having great power or influence |
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"As (m.Krempe) went on i felt that As if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being" |
...."soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, purpose" |
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After the creature comes to life... "Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of dissappointment; dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so... |
Complete!" |
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"I had begun life with benevolent intentions, amd thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice and make myself useful to my fellow beings" |
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"I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others, and intolerable to myself." |
Pg 165 |
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In walton's final letters he quotes Victor saying "you may give up your purpose (when the crew is returning to england), but mine is assigned to me by Heaven, and I dare not." |
Pg 219 |
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In the same letter...." in a fit of enthusiastic madness I created a rational creature, and was bound towards him, to assure,as far as was in my power, his happiness and well being. This was my duty;but there was another still paramount to that. My duties towards the beings of my own species had greater claims to my attention." |
Pg 219 |
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In the same letter again, "the task of his destruction was mine, but I have failed" |
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In the letters.."Farewell, walton! Seek happiness in tranquility, and avoid ambition" ... "Yet why do I say this? I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed" |
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