No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
BRAM STOKERThe 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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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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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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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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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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.
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