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.
BRAM STOKERFor 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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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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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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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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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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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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