Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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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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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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.
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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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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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