Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
BRAM STOKERBefore I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in 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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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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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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