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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.

Bram Stoker

There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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Bad Country Dream People Sleep
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 Know Men No One Starnger
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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All Things Reason
I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Cracks Nuts Standing
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
There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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Grow Idea Madness Method Mind Rudimentary
She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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Brain Gift Heart Man Much Should Women
And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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Began Draw Gloom Red Remain Snow
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
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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Afraid Law Men Sex Woman
Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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Condolences Facts Sympathy
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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Dream Pain Sweet
I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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Bessie Country End Girl Last Peace Place Poor Shoot Well
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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Allied Centralisation City Classification Closely Country
I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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Belief Extraordinary Keep Open Ordinary Strange Thing Things Try

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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