Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
BRAM STOKERThe fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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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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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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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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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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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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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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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