Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
BRAM STOKERIt was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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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 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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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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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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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.
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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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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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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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How 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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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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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.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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