A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKERIt 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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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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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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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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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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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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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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