There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
BRAM STOKERLet 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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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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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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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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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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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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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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 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 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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