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.
BRAM STOKERThe 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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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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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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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Despair has its own calms.
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