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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

Bram Stoker

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Evoke Life Sparks
Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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Again Come Freely House Once Welcome
I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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Choice Cry Even Just Laugh Same Sory Think
Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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Believe Faculty Faith
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Antidote Beneficient Death Mood Nature Ordained Own Some Terror
Take me away from all this Death.
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All Away Death Talk
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Afford Before Century Man Mean Slow Succeed Wait
No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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Blood Feels Men Women
I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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Air Clear Rain Suppose
We learn from failure, not from success!
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Failure Inspiration Learn Success
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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Light Love Selfish
Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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Agonize Began Dog Down Farmhouse Fear From Howl Long Road Somewhere Walk
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Castles Entrance Literature
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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Human Nature Really Resilience Wonderful
I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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Cut Head Heart Her Off Take Want
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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Air Build Castle Freely Long Sea Talk Together
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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Evidence Ghouls Past Teaching
All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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All Deal Discreet God Inasmuch Mad Madame Men Other Some Way
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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Darkness Life Light One
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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Brain Come End Feel Must No Own Shock Undoing Unhinge
Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Free Heart Hope Man might Women
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Able Failure From Learn Much Perhaps Success
Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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During Memory Soul Strange Thing Trance
Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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Ever Heaven Men More Name Nothing Often Ordinary Possible Think
Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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Crucifix Fear Ghostly Itself Lady Many Old Place Tradition
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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Bee Chase Errant Escape Fit Follow Lunatic Naked Nothing Swarmn Upon
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Mean Men Patience

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