A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKERYou yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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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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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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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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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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