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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.

Bram Stoker

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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All Different Direction Drawn Fight Like Men Pull Rope Strain Women
I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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Bid Dracula Welcome You
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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After Anything Between Light Love Selfish Shadow Stand Thing Throwm Balck
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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Believing Enlightened Men Wise
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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Beautiful Books Darkness Light
For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Behind Bird Far Lie Life Love Music No Old Place Say Song Sunshine
There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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Grow Idea Madness Method Mind Rudimentary
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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Body Envelope Foreign Gather Insensitive Nature Protect Round Somebody Like Dam Tissue
There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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Bad Dream Sleep Those University
I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Cracks Nuts Standing
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.
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Animal Ideas Looks Obstacle
Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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Girl Ground Like Lot Made Man Must Trod Unhappy Worship
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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Being Between Distinction Infinitesimal Man Omnipotent Paltry
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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Confess Doubt Fear Sea Thinking
This man belongs to me, I want him!
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Belong Him Man Want
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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Human Nature Really Resilience Wonderful

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