The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
BRAM STOKERI have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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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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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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The blood is the life!
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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Despair has its own calms.
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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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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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The blood is the life!
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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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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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