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.
BRAM STOKERThere are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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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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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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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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It 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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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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