Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
BRAM STOKERParis is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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Do 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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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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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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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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