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.
BRAM STOKEREven if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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I 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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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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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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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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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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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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