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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

Bram Stoker

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
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
Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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Always Come Door Keep Laughter Like Person Suitability
I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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Alone Go Into Let Unknown
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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Dream Fear Harmed Heart Horror
I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Crack Hard Nut Stand Take Up
The blood is the life!
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Blood Life
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Evoke Life Sparks
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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Box Cart Scatter Count Earth Fall Lying Over Rule Saw Some
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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Do Ever Hardness Heart Little Our Seem Thing Though Time Wrong
He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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Afterward Anywhere Bid Come Enter First Household Some Though Unless
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
Despair has its own calms.
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Calm Despair Own
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
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Century Revenge Sides
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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Bee Chase Errant Escape Fit Follow Lunatic Naked Nothing Swarmn Upon

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