Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
BRAM STOKERThe angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Despair has its own calms.
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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