Despair has its own calms.
BRAM STOKERIt 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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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