Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
BRAM STOKERBleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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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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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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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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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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