Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
BRAM STOKERA wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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Love 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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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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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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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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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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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Take me away from all this Death.
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