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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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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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Century Deceive Kill Mere Modernity Old Own Power Sense Unless
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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Brood Loneliness Our Over Roof Sit Wing
She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Beautiful Country Death Grey Pallor People Person Very Young
We learn from failure, not from success!
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Failure Inspiration Learn Success
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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All Assurance Past Safety Thing
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
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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Doctor Doubt Everything Eyebrow Know Like Yourself
But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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Ever Feel Feet Flame Later Love Night Path Tread Walk
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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Act Become Castle Conscious Courtyard Driver Fact House Pill Ruin Suddenly Vast
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
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Castle Count Entrance Fix Left More Undead
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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Eye Fall Image Lying Waxen
Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Free Heart Hope Man might Women
You 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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Love never Not Past So Tell Yourselves Youself
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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Actor Fame Minute Second Won Year
Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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Care Nature Night Noon State Suspend Wait
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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All Are As Reason Thing
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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Doctors Doubt Eyebrows
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Assurance Past Safety
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Evoke Life Sparks
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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Brain Diaries Feelings Shock Thought
We learn from failure, not from success!
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Inspirational Learning Wisdom
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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Mad Must Sanity Sometimes Strait Waistcoat Wake
But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in 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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Effort Free Our Pledge Secret Set Silence Toil World
But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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Each More Our Purpose Strong Together
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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Good Men Thoughtful
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Conveniently Dream Imagine Play Trick Wonderful

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