A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKERHow blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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 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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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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It 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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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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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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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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