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14 Cards in this Set
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"When I look back, it seems to me as if this almost miraculous change of inclination and will was the immediate suggestion of the guardian angel of my life - the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hanging in the stars and ready to envelop me."
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Victor; pursuit of knowledge
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"I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart..."
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The Monster; Victor
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"I am malicious because I am miserable."
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The Monster; Victor
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"The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge."
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The Monster; Victor; Nature as a healing force.
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"I have wandered here many days; the caves of ice, which I only do not fear, are a dwelling to me, and the only one which man does not grudge."
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The monster; Victor; Nature as a healing force.
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"These bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than your fellow beings."
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The monster; Victor; Nature as a healing force.
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"The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnizing my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life."
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Victor; The monster; Nature as a healing force.
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"These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of recieving. They elevated me from all littleness of felling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranqualized it."
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Victor; Justine's Death; Nature as a healing force.
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"I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forever."
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Victor; His growing guilt; Nature as a healing force.
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"My country, my beloved country! Who but a native can tell the delight I took in again beholding thy streams, thy mountains, and more than all, thy lovely lake!"
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Victor; Returning home; Nature as a healing force.
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"It was the wretch, the filthy demon to whom I had given life."
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Victor; the monster; Science v.s nature
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"...as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pnademonium appeared to the demons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire."
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The monster; The apperence of the hut; Paradise Lost as an extended metaphor.
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"Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me which nothing could extinguish."
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Victor; right before justine's execution; The need to measure the race of knowledge w/ the human community.
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"The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my busom and would not forgo their hold."
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Victor; Justine; the need to measure the onward race for acheivement against the yardstick of benefit to the human community.
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