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| What may not be expected in a country of eternal light? | Walton’s first letter to his sister in England (Frankenstein) |
| treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation | Victor as he relates to Walton how his chemistry professor, M. Waldman, ignited in him an irrepressible desire to gain knowledge of the secret of life(Frankenstein) |
| I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. | the monster to Walton as he stands over Victor's dead body (Frankenstein) |
| That’s what they mean by the love that passeth understanding: that pride, that furious desire to hide that abject nakedness which we bring here with us, . . . carry stubbornly and furiously with us into the earth again. | Peabody has these thoughts about the dying Addie Bundren(As I Lay Dying) |
| Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It’s like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it. | Cash as he discusses his family’s decision to commit his brother Darl to a mental institution (As I Lay Dying) |
| No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. | Mustapha Mond explaining the history of the World State to the group of boys touring the Hatchery(Brave New World) |
| Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons. Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. . . . | Lenina remembers this from hypnopaedic messages of childhood (Brave New World) |
| It is clear that things cannot be otherwise than they are, for since everything is made to serve an end, everything necessarily serves the best end. | Pangloss's philosophy (Candide) |
| A hundred times I wanted to kill myself, but always I loved life more. | the old woman (Candide) |
| Yes, but did the passengers aboard his ship have to perish too? God punished the scoundrel, the devil drowned the others. | Martin to Candide (Candide) |
| If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. | Shylock to Solanio and Salerio(Merchant of Venice) |
| The quality of mercy is not strained. | Portia to Shylock (Merchant of Venice) |
| The man that hath no music in himself, | Lorenzo ordering music to celebrate Portia's homecoming (Merchant of Venice) |
| Why this is hell, nor am I out of it. | Mephistopilis to Faustus (Faust) |
| Come, I think hell’s a fable. | Faustus to Mephistophilis (Faust) |
| Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, | Faustus as he begins to realize the terrible nature of the bargain he has made (Faust) |
| Cursed be the parents that engendered me: | Faustus's final speech (Faust) |
| monks teach, dispute, govern, intrigue, and have people burned for not being of their opinion | Incan Prince in Candide to Candide and Cacambo |
| Who asked for "a few sheep loaded with victuals, pebbles, and some of the country's mud" ? | Candide to the Incan Prince |
| “They got me long ago.” | O'Brien to Winston in 1984 |
| Even money-lenders, hacks, well, a man like me, can have a little of what you call feeling, you know | Krogstad to Nora in A Doll's House |
| husbands and children can be replaced, but brothers cannot | Antigone in her speech about defying Creon's orders |
| And wear my dagger with the braver grace, and speak between the change of man and boy with a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps into a manly stride | Portia from Merchant of Venice when she talks about disguising herself with Nerissa |
| Candide was written by | Voltaire |
| Faust was written by | Goethe |
| Frankenstein was written by | Mary Shelley |
| As I Lay Dying was written by | Faulkner |
| Brave New World was written by | Huxley |
| Merchant of Venice was written by | Shakespeare |
