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 STOKERHe means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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The blood is the life!
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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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.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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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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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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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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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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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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