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“At this point, almost against his will, he looked at the face of the corpse. It was as it had been in his life. He could discover no sign of the promised transfiguration. What all the others had found in the machine, the Officer had not. His lips were pressed firmly together, his eyes were open and looked as they had when he was alive, his gaze was calm and convinced. The tip of a large iron needle had gone through his forehead.”
― In the Penal Colony
― In the Penal Colony
“The coatings laid on by civilization are probably thin enough in all of us.”
― The Damned
― The Damned
“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!”
― The Yellow Wall-Paper
― The Yellow Wall-Paper
“There was something so strange in all this, something so weird and impossible to imagine, that there grew on me a sense of my being in some way the sport of opposite forces - the mere vague idea of which seemed in a way to paralyse me. I was certainly under some form of mysterious protection. From a distant country had come, in the very nick of time, a message that took me out of the danger of the snow-sleep and the jaws of the wolf.”
― Dracula's Guest
― Dracula's Guest
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