Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
BRAM STOKERTruly there is no such thing as finality.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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Oh, 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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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