I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
BRAM STOKERAs yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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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.
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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