It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
BRAM STOKERBecause if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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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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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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