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Interview with the Vampire

Lestat hunted for mortals every night,
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mortals = humans

I bore this with an overt detachment unknown to me in mortal life and came to understand this as a part of vampire nature: that I might sit at home at Pointe du Lac and think for hours of my brother's mortal life and see it short and rounded in unfathomable darkness, understanding now the vain and senseless wasting passion with which I'd mourned his loss and turned on other mortals like a maddened animal.†
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mortals = humans (especially merely humans) or people subject to death

Let me not give you that impression, for brooding would have been to me the most terrible waste; but rather I looked around me at all the mortals that I knew and saw all life as precious, condemning all fruitless guilt and passion that would let it slip through the fingers like sand.†
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The slaves knew now we were not ordinary mortals.†
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They were in many ways as elusive as the dreams of mortals.†
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And all this time I was educating Claudia, whispering in her tiny seashell ear that our eternal life was useless to us if we did not see the beauty around us, the creation of mortals everywhere; I was constantly sounding the depth of her still gaze as she took the books I gave her, whispered the poetry I taught her, and played with a light but confident touch her own strange, coherent songs on the piano.†
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He stood back on the brick sidewalk regarding me with that grave suspicion that sooner or later crept into the faces of all mortals who-knew us for any length of time, the forerunner of death, as pallor might be to a fatal fever; and I tried to explain to him they had not been here, mother or daughter, and we must begin some search.†
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You speak of them out there as mortals, us as vampires.†
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You look at me as you look at mortals from aloft, from some region of cold self-sufficiency l can't understand.†
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A wilderness of mortals surrounded us, groping, blind, preoccupied, and the brides and bridegrooms of death.†
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Your need to drive the needle of the mind right to the heart of it all like the beak of the hummingbird, who beats so wild and fast that mortals might think he had no tiny feet could never set, just go from quest to quest, going again and again for the heart of it.†
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Unconscious death ....the fate of all mortals.†
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And that soft, wrenching sound which none of those mortals might hear seemed somehow to hook me to the solid place where I was.†
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I think I put my hands to my head as mortals do when so deeply troubled that they instinctively cover the face, reach for the brain as if they could reach through the skull and massage the living organ out of its agony.†
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I was something whirling and vibrating to them, as mortals were to me.†
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But then a voice came softly to me on the air, too faint for mortals: 'How is this so?†
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'You care here to ponder mortals, justice done to mortals?' he asked; but there was no reproach or mockery in his tone.†
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'You care here to ponder mortals, justice done to mortals?' he asked; but there was no reproach or mockery in his tone.†
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I will not make her one of us, I will not damn the legions of mortals who'll die at her hands if I dot Your power over me is broken.†
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Mortals would be so entranced, and drop to their knees to look into the small windows.†
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Houses of other centuries, gnarled trees, that sudden thick and silent tranquility which means that the masses are shut out; a handful of mortals inhabit this vast region of highceilinged rooms; stone absorbs the sound of breathing, the space of whole lives.†
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I was reacting too much as if the 'mortal coil' had not been shaken off.†
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As boring as a mortal, as trivial and unhappy as a mortal, he chattered over the game, belittling my experience, utterly locked against the possibility of any experience of his own.†
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As boring as a mortal, as trivial and unhappy as a mortal, he chattered over the game, belittling my experience, utterly locked against the possibility of any experience of his own.†
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Don't get any mortal notions about telling them you are a vampire.†
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'That mortal nonsense,' he would say to me, while at the same time spending so much of my money to splendidly furnish Pointe du Lac, that even I, who cared nothing for the money, was forced to wince.†
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I bore this with an overt detachment unknown to me in mortal life and came to understand this as a part of vampire nature: that I might sit at home at Pointe du Lac and think for hours of my brother's mortal life and see it short and rounded in unfathomable darkness, understanding now the vain and senseless wasting passion with which I'd mourned his loss and turned on other mortals like a maddened animal.†
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I bore this with an overt detachment unknown to me in mortal life and came to understand this as a part of vampire nature: that I might sit at home at Pointe du Lac and think for hours of my brother's mortal life and see it short and rounded in unfathomable darkness, understanding now the vain and senseless wasting passion with which I'd mourned his loss and turned on other mortals like a maddened animal.†
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It was detachment that made this possible, a sublime loneliness with which Lestat and I moved through the world of mortal men.†
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But this had never given him the life he wanted, and so for that he had ushered me into the preternatural world that he might acquire an investor and manager for whom these skills of mortal life became most valuable in this life after.†
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Of course, I did not fear these elements in the sense that you might; they did not numb me, nor threaten me with mortal shivering or illness.†
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The nuances of vampire existence weren't even available to him because he was focused with a maniacal vengeance upon the mortal life he'd left.†
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They were very black and totally foreign; they spoke in their African tongues, and they spoke the French patois; and when they sang, they sang African songs which made the fields exotic and strange, always frightening to me in my mortal life.†
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Not so that mortal eyes would have seen it, but Lestat and I could see it.†
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But I found her more alluring than any woman I'd known in mortal life.†
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You are in mortal danger; don't talk of devils!'†
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Even with morning rising slowly, only the dormers and high porches of the houses were emerging from the dark, and to a mortal man the narrow streets I found were like pitch.†
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For such dreams, such long and clear dreams I never had as a mortal; and such twisted nightmares I never had either.†
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You are in love with your mortal nature!†
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And in your romance with mortal life, you're dead to your vampire nature!'†
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My vampire nature has been for me the greatest adventure of my life; ail that went before it was confused, clouded; I went through mortal life like a blind man groping from solid object to solid object.†
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So it is with you and mortal nature.†
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He led me quickly through the street, turning every time I hesitated, his hand out for mine, a smile on his lips, his presence as marvelous to me as the night he'd come in my mortal life and told me we would be vampires.†
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And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret.†
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He was playing to me as he had when I was mortal; he was leading me.†
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She forgot her five years of mortal life at once, or so it seemed, for she was mysteriously quiet.†
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And from time to time I even feared that she had lost all sense, that the illness of her mortal life, combined with the great vampire shock, might have robbed her of reason; but this proved hardly the case.†
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Louis had a mortal sister, I remember her.†
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He was mortal the same as she; and so was I. Why else this size, this shape?†
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Must I find a hag to show you your mortal countenance now if I had let you alone?†
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(1) (mortal as in: mortal body)
human (especially merely human); or subject to death
(2) (mortal as in: a mortal wound)
causing death
(3) (mortal as in: felt mortal agony)
extreme or intense
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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