"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed."

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"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed."

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"His eyes were that colour you can't see in the rainbow. Indigo."

"Your opinions about doesn't matter, I know who I am."

"That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead."

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