But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
BRAM STOKEROh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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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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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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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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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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Then 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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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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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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