The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
BRAM STOKERYou 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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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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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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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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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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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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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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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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Paris 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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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