The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
BRAM STOKERI sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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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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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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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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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.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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 are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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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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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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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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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