Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
BRAM STOKERLove 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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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