The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
BRAM STOKERIt 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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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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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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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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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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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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The blood is the life!
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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