Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
BRAM STOKERWe learn of great things by little experiences.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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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 Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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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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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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