A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKERA house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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The blood is the life!
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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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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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 in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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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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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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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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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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 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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