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.
BRAM STOKERFaith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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 am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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The Dead travel fast.
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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 means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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