Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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The blood is the life!
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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