A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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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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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’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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