Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
BRAM STOKERLove is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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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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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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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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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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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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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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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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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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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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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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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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The blood is the life!
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