I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
BRAM STOKERTruly there is no such thing as finality.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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The Dead travel fast.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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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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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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