I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
BRAM STOKEROrdinary 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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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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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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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