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Outside everything was uncannily visible in the light of the full moon, but here in the dark shaded alleys the night was conscious of itself.

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Anyone can prove anything except that anything’s worth proving.

I shall leave this farm-house very soon. The people are all right, but they are people, and therefore insufferable.

Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.

He was so disrespectful that it was believed that he spoke truth.

The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, gray-haired, bent, he seemed to pass through life as in a dream.

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Matter gave birth to a passion that has no equal, which proceeded from something contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in its whole body.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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