Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
BRAM STOKERAh, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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