It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
BRAM STOKERAnd yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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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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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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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 have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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