She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
BRAM STOKERLove 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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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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The blood is the life!
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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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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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The blood is the life!
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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