A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
BRAM STOKERThese infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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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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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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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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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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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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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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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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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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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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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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