I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
BRAM STOKERDoctor, 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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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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The blood is the life!
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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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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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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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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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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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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