No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
BRAM STOKERFaith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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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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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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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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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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