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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

Bram Stoker

I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Cracks Nuts Standing
Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Call Own Place Spent
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Evoke Life Sparks
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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Dream Fear Sweet
We learn from failure, not from success!
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Inspirational Learning Wisdom
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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Children Listen Maker Music Night
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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Animal Ideas Looks Obstacle
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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Coward Man Marry Save Such Suppose Think Women
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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Full Good How Men Monster Seem Thoughtful
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Begun Century Just Over Revenge Side Spread Time
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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Endless Figure Gate Guess Join Long Measurem Terrible Open
Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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Condolences Facts Sympathy
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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Arm Comprehensive Gigantic Hear Mouth Radiating Shallow Tentaculae
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Conveniently Dream Imagine Play Trick Wonderful
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
Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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Care Nature Night Noon State Suspend Wait
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Antidote Beneficient Death Mood Nature Ordained Own Some Terror
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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Care Land Men
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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Apple Could Mouth Mystifying Original Ramin Resist Some Suppose Taste Temptation
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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Began Country Gloom Howl Imagination Night Wind
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 Diaries Feelings Shock Thought
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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Coward Men Thinking
Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Own Place Sleep
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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All Anchor Drift Faith Now Only Our Reward
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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Bee Chase Errant Escape Fit Follow Lunatic Naked Nothing Swarmn Upon
But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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Hush Inquisitive Make Other Question Tell
She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Beautiful Death Grey Pale

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