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Frankenstein

Chapter17
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But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union.

Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery.

I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred.

Have a care; I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth." A fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded-- "I intended to reason.

This passion is detrimental to me, for you do not reflect that YOU are the cause of its excess.


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