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.
BRAM STOKERI 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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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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