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› prompts from mary shelley's novel frankenstein (1818/1831). feel free to tweak as you see fit.

“nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

“beware; for i am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

“life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and i will defend it.”

“i do know that for the sympathy of one living being, i would make peace with all.”

“i have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe.”

“there is something at work in my soul, which i do not understand.”

“if i cannot inspire love, i will cause fear!”

“how mutable are our feelings.”

“it is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world.”

“on that account we shall be more attached to one another.”

“the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.”

“i am alone.”

“i was benevolent and good.”

“misery made me a fiend.”

“hateful day when i received life!”

“i am solitary and abhorred.”

“the whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream.”

“the world was to me a secret which i desired to devine.”

“i am alone and miserable.”

“i could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.”

“i wish to be allowed to speak.”

“i am malicious because i am miserable.”

“i looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave”

“why did i not die?”

“what can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?”

“soon these burning miseries will be extinct.”

“be calm!”

“one wondering thought pollutes the day.”

“you are in the wrong,"

“i will revenge my injuries.”

“do you share my maddness?”

𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐳, 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢 ; 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚕 - a novel excerpt.

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› prompts from fyodor dostoevsky's novel the idiot (1869). feel free to tweak as you see fit.

❛ beauty will save the world. ❜

❛ it is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. ❜

❛ i am a fool with a heart but no brains. ❜

❛ we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer. ❜

❛ a fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart. ❜

❛ i want to talk about everything with at least one person as i talk about things with myself. ❜

❛ it's life that matters, nothing but life. ❜

❛ one can't understand everything at once. ❜

❛ look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you! ❜

❛ i almost do not exist now and i know it. ❜

❛ sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural. ❜

❛ it is as if your dream has told you something new. ❜

❛ oh i've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own. ❜

❛ we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another. ❜

❛ one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait. ❜

❛ if he's alive he has everything in his power! ❜

❛ i have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. ❜

❛ human beings are created in order to torment one another. ❜

❛ i'm drunk but truthful. ❜

❛ perhaps i shall meet with troubles and many disappointments. ❜

❛ i have made up my mind to be polite and sincere to everyone. ❜

❛ more cannot be asked of me. ❜

❛ nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret. ❜

❛ you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another. ❜

❛ we demand, we don't ask. ❜

❛ lunatics! vain creatures! ❜

❛ speak of a wolf and you see his tail! ❜

❛ it's easier to be humble.”

❛ and how can one love two at once? ❜

❛ the worst thing is that it is certain. ❜

❛ you seem to be ashamed of what you've said, ❜

❛ there is something else here, and there will always be something else. ❜

❛ you are very beautiful, (name,) so beautiful that one is afraid to look at you. ❜

❛ a dead man has no age ❜

❛ you are ill now, and you had much better go to bed. ❜

❛ why will you go on dwelling on it? ❜

❛ but you are not to blame for anything. ❜

❛ your life cannot be altogether ruined. ❜

❛ few people would do what you have done. ❜

❛ i will look after you. ❜

❛ i swear to you that i am not quite such an ass as i like to appear sometimes. ❜