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.
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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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 have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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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 have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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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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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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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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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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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.
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