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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Bram Stoker

And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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Children Home Land Quickest
I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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Cut Head Heart Her Off Take Want
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Evoke Life Sparks
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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Endless Figure Gate Guess Join Long Measurem Terrible Open
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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Alter Believe Destiny Even Luckiest Man Power Purpose Single Time
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
For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Behind Lying People Song Sunshine
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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Doctors Doubt Eyebrows
Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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Alone Alter Bearable Fact Help Make More Sympathy
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
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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Century Deceive Kill Mere Modernity Old Own Power Sense Unless
It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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Facem Such Feel Himself Horror Import Man Only True Understand
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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Coward Men Thinking
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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Ever Feel Feet Flame Later Love Night Path Tread Walk
Despair has its own calms.
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Calm Despair Own
I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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Believe Not Thing Want

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