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Despair has its own calms.

Bram Stoker

For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Behind Bird Far Lie Life Love Music No Old Place Say Song Sunshine
There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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Bad Dream Sleep Those University
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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Brain Come End Feel Must No Own Shock Undoing Unhinge
Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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Conquer Fault People Perhaps Person Same Some Themselves Way
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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Always Animal Between Durability Look Obstacle Pronounce Some Thought Us Well Wild
A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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Diminish Experience Idea Intestified Personal
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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Feet Flames Night Tread
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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Bees Escaping Following Naked Nothing
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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All Assurance Past Safety Thing
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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Evidence Ghouls Past Teaching
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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Light Love Selfish
We learn of great things by little experiences.
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Experience Great Learn Little Thing
He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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Afterward Anywhere Bid Come Enter First Household Some Though Unless
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Able Failure From Learn Much Perhaps Success
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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Human Nature Really Resilience Wonderful
For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
BRAM STOKER

Behind Lying People Song Sunshine

Despair has its own calms.

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