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And so with all things: names were vital and important.
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All Things
Vital
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Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.
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Infinite
Soul
Way
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Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
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Individual
May
Slavery
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It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.
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Little Things
Pierce
Burn
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Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.
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Quality
Sensations
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The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
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Firsts
Light
Preparation
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No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
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Men
Lying
Magic
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I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
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Ghost
Ghost Stories
Improbable
Spinning
Tales
Taste
Wild
Discovered
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A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
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Emotion
First Time
Scene
Vivid
Experienced
Leaves
Memory
Occurred
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But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.
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Heart
Passion
Strong
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But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
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Persist
Wicked
Alone Good Men
Hearts
Pictures
Passions
Seem
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I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
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Proof
Reality
Standards
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The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
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Dream
Book
Dark
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No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.
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Memories
Wall
Yield
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My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.
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Imagination
Stars
World
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The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.
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Wise
Children
Confused
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His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
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Imagination
Alive
Sooner Or Later
Sooner
Conceived
Discovered
Invariably
Worlds
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It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
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Alas
Beautiful
Evil
Lovely
Moon
Noble
Photographs
Chiefly
Deed
Ghosts
Haunted
Revisiting
Surrounding
Whoever
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And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
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Birth
Brain
Dust
Emotion
Heart
Long
Persist
Restraint
Forth
Guard
Sent
Vitally
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My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.
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Abnormal
Alcohol
Description
Tobacco
Touched
Card
Cue
Foot
Held
Smoked
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Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.
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Adventure
Fall
Past
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To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid.
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Darkness
Heart
Wall
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When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.
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Imagination
Darkness
Suggestions
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