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When I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle, and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.

If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched. Yet why were these gentle beings unhappy?

"I expected this reception," said the dæmon. "All men hate the wretched; how then must I be hated"

Siento la analogía tan cutre, pero Victor Frankenstein hablando sobre su amedrentamiento como si fuese la mayor víctima del mundo por haber abandonado a su propia creación me recuerda a JPelirrojo rollo victimizándose al contar lo "mal" que lo pasó tras haberle puesto él los cuernos a Roenlared xdd

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule.

What had been the study and desire of the wisest men since the creation of the world was now within my grasp.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

“The ancient teachers of this science,” said he, “promised impossibilities, and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted, and that the elixir of life is a chimera. But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pour over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles.”