Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
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"What is there in our nature that is forever urging us on towards pain and misery?"
"Blasted as I was, I could not bear to look on the face of man."
"Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; …"
"My heart was full of a thousand conflicting emotions."
"We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we w…"
Frankenstein, spoken by Victor Frankenstein, warning Robert Walton about the perilous pursuit of knowledge.
Date: 1818
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