I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKERLove 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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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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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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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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The blood is the life!
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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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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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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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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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