“I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”
― Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
― Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
― Uncle Tom’s Cabin
― Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
“I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes.”
― Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes.”
― Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters
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