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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: out that on one occasion I tried to kill him for the purpose
of strengthening my vital powers by the assimilation with
my own body of his life through the medium of his blood,
relying of course, upon the Scriptural phrase, `For the blood
is the life.' Though, indeed, the vendor of a certain nostrum
has vulgarized the truism to the very point of contempt.
Isn't that true, doctor?"
I nodded assent, for I was so amazed that I hardly knew what
to either think or say, it was hard to imagine that I had seen
him eat up his spiders and flies not five minutes before.
Looking at my watch, I saw that I should go to the station to meet
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