“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”
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Bram Stoker
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Dracula
Source: Dracula
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Bram Stoker 84
Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for… 1847–1912Related quotes
Roland Barthes
(1915–1980) French philosopher, critic and literary theorist
"Myth on the Right," in Mythologies (1957)
Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XX: The Minister in a Maze
“A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.”
Robert E. Lee
(1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War
"Definition of a Gentleman" http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LEE/gentdef.html, a memorandum found in his papers after his death, as quoted in Lee the American (1912) by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 233
Context: The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman.
The power which the strong have over the weak, the employer over the employed, the educated over the unlettered, the experienced over the confiding, even the clever over the silly — the forbearing or inoffensive use of all this power or authority, or a total abstinence from it when the case admits it, will show the gentleman in a plain light.
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which imparts sufficient strength to let the past be but the past. A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”
Isaac Newton
(1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
Martin Amis
(1949) Welsh novelist
"Phantom of the Opera: The Republicans in 1988" (1988)
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (1993)
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning, p. 155
It was like fighting with a demon for a human soul, and when I had fairly so appraised it I saw how the human soul—held out, in the tremor of my hands, at arm's length—had a perfect dew of sweat on a lovely childish forehead.
Source: The Turn of the Screw (1898), Ch. XXIV.