Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
BRAM STOKERAnd 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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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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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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Despair has its own calms.
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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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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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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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The blood is the life!
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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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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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