The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
BRAM STOKERWe are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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 have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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I 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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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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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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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