Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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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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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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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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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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