Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
BRAM STOKERI have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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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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The Dead travel fast.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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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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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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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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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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