We learn of great things by little experiences.
BRAM STOKERA personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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The blood is the life!
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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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