I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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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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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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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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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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