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 STOKERThis man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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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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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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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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