How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
BRAM STOKERIt 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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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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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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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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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