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 STOKERDenn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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