Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
BRAM STOKERDo you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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 is a reason why all things are as they are.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Despair has its own calms.
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