She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
BRAM STOKERWe learn from failure, not from success!
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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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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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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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 am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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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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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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