I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
BRAM STOKERThen 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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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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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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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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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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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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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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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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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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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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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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