I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
BRAM STOKERBefore I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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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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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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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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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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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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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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