Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
BRAM STOKERDespair has its own calms.
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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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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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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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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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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Despair has its own calms.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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