Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
BRAM STOKERListen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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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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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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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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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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 blood is the life!
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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