Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
BRAM STOKERI 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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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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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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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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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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