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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.

Bram Stoker

But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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Hush Inquisitive Make Other Question Tell
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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All Things Reason
Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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Believe Enable Faculty Faith Known Thing Untrue
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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Beautiful Books Darkness Light
This man belongs to me, I want him!
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Belong Him Man Want
Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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Girl Ground Like Lot Made Man Must Trod Unhappy Worship
We learn from failure, not from success!
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Inspirational Learning Wisdom
Despair has its own calms.
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Calm Despair Own
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Antidote Mood Terror
Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Count Dracula Free Will
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Friend Knowledge Memory Remember Should Stronger Trust Weaker
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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Accurate Everything Let Seen Some Strange Thing Though Together
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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Afterward Anywhere Bid Come Enter First Household Some Though Unless
The blood is the life!
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Blood Life
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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Dream Pain Sweet
I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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Been Long Master None Other So Still
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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Crucifix Fear Ghostly Itself Lady Many Old Place Tradition
Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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Bones Mouth Music Teras
For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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After Death Depend Life Only Rightly Something Waiting
Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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Ever Heaven Men More Name Nothing Often Ordinary Possible Think
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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After Century Day Few Habitable House Made Make
Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Enter Free Freely Own Will
The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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Afraid Law Men Sex Woman
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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Believe Efforts Enlightenment Love Wise
It 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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Almost Before Breathe Draw Eyes Like Miracle
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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Facem Such Feel Himself Horror Import Man Only True Understand
I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
BRAM STOKER

Bid Dracula Welcome You

We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.

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