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.
BRAM STOKERThen a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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Despair has its own calms.
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Despair has its own calms.
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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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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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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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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