I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
BRAM STOKERDenn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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Despair has its own calms.
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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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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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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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 suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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