Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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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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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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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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