I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
BRAM STOKERLet 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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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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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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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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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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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