Frankenstein

for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose – a

point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture.

I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death – a state which I feared yet did not understand.

I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling.

nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

I shall satiate my ardent curiosity

you understand this feeling?

llow you to perish on the open sea.”
On perceiving me, the stranger addressed me in English, although with a foreign accent. “Before I come on board your vessel,” said he, “will you have the kindness to inform me whither you are bound?”