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.
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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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 in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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