It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
BRAM STOKERI 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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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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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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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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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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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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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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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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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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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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