My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
BRAM STOKERThe blood is the life!
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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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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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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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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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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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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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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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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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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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 learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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