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“I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.”
— Apr 09, 2026 06:58PM
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Micah Webber
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Of Victor, by Walton: “What a glorious creature must he have been in the days of his prosperity, when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin! He seems to feel his own worth and the greatness of his fall.”
— Apr 25, 2026 07:02AM
Micah Webber
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She looked forward to our union with placid contentment, not unmingled with a little fear, which past misfortunes had impressed, that what now appeared certain and tangible happiness might soon dissipate into an airy dream and leave no trace but deep and everlasting regret.
. . .I shut up, as well as I could, in my own heart the anxiety that preyed there…”
— Apr 25, 2026 06:14AM
. . .I shut up, as well as I could, in my own heart the anxiety that preyed there…”
Micah Webber
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“I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.”
— Apr 18, 2026 05:23AM
Micah Webber
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“Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned? I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge. Oh, that I had forever remained in my native wood, nor known nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat! Of what a strange nature is knowledge!
— Apr 14, 2026 05:09PM
Micah Webber
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“The first of these sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.”
— Apr 14, 2026 04:59PM
Micah Webber
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“I remained, while the storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight…. I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak… and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared…. [W]e found the tree shattered in a singular manner. It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbons of wood. I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.”
— Apr 09, 2026 06:13AM
Micah Webber
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“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.”
— Apr 09, 2026 06:09AM
Micah Webber
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“I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans.”
— Apr 08, 2026 04:44AM
Micah Webber
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I’ve read the First Two Pages of Frankenstein!
— Apr 06, 2026 09:21PM
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“As he went on I felt 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; chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose. So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.”
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“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 tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires. of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.”
