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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: The matter seemed preying on his mind, and so I determined to use it,
to "be cruel only to be kind." So I said, "You like life,
and you want life?"
"Oh yes! But that is all right. You needn't worry about that!"
"But," I asked, "how are we to get the life without getting
the soul also?"
This seemed to puzzle him, so I followed it up, "A nice
time you'll have some time when you're flying out here,
with the souls of thousands of flies and spiders and birds
and cats buzzing and twittering and moaning all around you.
You've got their lives, you know, and you must put up
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