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 STOKERThere are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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Despair has its own calms.
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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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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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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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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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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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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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These 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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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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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.
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