Buchzitate

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Pride and Prejudice

It is a truth universally acknowledged.

Eine ironische Eröffnung.

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Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Das Geschöpf erklärt seine aus der Isolation geborene Macht und warnt Victor, dass Ablehnung Konsequenzen hat.

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Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus

I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel.

Das Geschöpf vergleicht sich mit Adam, dem das Paradies durch die Verlassenheit seines Schöpfers verwehrt wird.

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Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Victors Reflexion darüber, wie rasch sein Glück bei dem Anblick seiner Schöpfung in Verzweiflung umschlug.

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Meditations

Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings.

Establishes the connection between Marcus Aurelius's lineage and his spiritual reputation.

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Meditations

Acts of "rightness" or "straightness."

A definition of moral action derived from the Greek term 'katorqwseiz'.

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Meditations

paltry breath bearing up corpses

A poetic description of the physical body contrasted with the life force.