Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
BRAM STOKERI 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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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.
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The Dead travel fast.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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