Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
BRAM STOKERWe are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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