I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKERAbove 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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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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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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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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I 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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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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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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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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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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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