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When my teacher told our class that everything we knew about Frankenstein was wrong, I'll be the first to admit I felt offended by this and deeply spiteful. But upon finishing this book, I realize he was right. I had so many misconceptions about what
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“There's some beauty left in mystery. The beauty of knowing the ocean is still mostly uncharted, inhabited by creatures nobody's ever seen, except for the scars they leave on the faces of whales.”
― The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
― The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
“They let the ground keep that ancestral treasure,
gold under gravel, gone to earth,
as useless to men now as it ever was.”
― Beowulf
gold under gravel, gone to earth,
as useless to men now as it ever was.”
― Beowulf
“Perhaps during former years he had suffered from the late-discovered unworthiness of one beloved, and so was disposed to set a greater value on tried worth.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“All joy was but a mockery, which insulted my desolate state, and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“But is it not a duty to the survivors, that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
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