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.
BRAM STOKERAnd 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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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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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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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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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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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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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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