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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.

Bram Stoker

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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Afraid Law Men Sex Woman
No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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All Boy Castle Children Death Enter Even Face Girl King Know Little Live Man So Wee Women
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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Always Come Door Keep Laughter Like Person Suitability
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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Brood Loneliness Our Over Roof Sit Wing
The Dead travel fast.
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Dead Fast Travel
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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Matter Principles Resilience
But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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Each More Our Purpose Strong Together
She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Beautiful Death Grey Pale
We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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Country May People Way
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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Feet Flames Night Tread
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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All Anchor Drift Faith Now Only Our Reward
Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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Care Nature Night Noon State Suspend Wait
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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Doctor Doubt Everything Eyebrow Know Like Yourself
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
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
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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Full Good How Men Monster Seem Thoughtful

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.

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