Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree, the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime.

Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree, the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 4. As Victor creates his creature, he isolates himself from society.

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