The blood is the life!
BRAM STOKERFor 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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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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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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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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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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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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.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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