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 STOKERTruly there is no such thing as finality.
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in 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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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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 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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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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