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.
BRAM STOKERIt is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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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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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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