vaudevillianveteran:

Victor Frankenstein ♦ Penny Dreadful 
↳“There is only one worthy goal for scientific exploration: piercing the tissue that separates life from death. Everything else, from the deep bottom of the sea to the top of the highest mountain on the farthest planet, is insignificant. Life and death, Sir Malcolm. The flicker that separates one from the other, fast as a bat’s wings, more beautiful than any sonnet – that is my river, that is my mountain. There I will plant my flag.”