No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
BRAM STOKERAll men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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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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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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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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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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