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Sleep has no place it can call its own.

Bram Stoker

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
We learn from failure, not from success!
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Inspirational Learning Wisdom
She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Beautiful Death Grey Pale
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
Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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Age All Effort Enlightenment Secret Silence Toil
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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Age Guess Men Mystery Only Part Solve
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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Effort Free Our Pledge Secret Set Silence Toil World
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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Box Cart Scatter Count Earth Fall Lying Over Rule Saw Some
No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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Blood Feels Men Women
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
Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Country Dead Denn Die Fast People Person Refer Travel
Despair has its own calms.
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Calm Despair Own
Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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Bones Mouth Music Teras
Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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Believing Enlightened Men Wise
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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Before Ego Knowledge Order Pause Root Selfishness Vice
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Able Perhaps Success

Sleep has no place it can call its own.

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