It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
BRAM STOKERThere is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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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’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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.
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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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