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.
BRAM STOKERNo man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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..
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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