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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.

Bram Stoker

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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Eye Fall Image Lying Waxen
Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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Agonize Began Dog Down Farmhouse Fear From Howl Long Road Somewhere Walk
I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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Believe Not Thing Want
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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Evidence Ghouls Past Teaching
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Mean Men Patience
I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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Air Clear Rain Suppose
Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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Bones Mouth Music Teras
Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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Deemed Done Electrical Friend Let Me Science Tell Today Unholy
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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Actor Fame Minute Second Won Year
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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Century Deceiving Modernity Power
Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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Always Come Door Keep Laughter Like Person Suitability
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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Care Know Men No One Starnger
We learn from failure, not from success!
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Inspirational Learning Wisdom
Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Own Place Sleep
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Able Failure From Learn Much Perhaps Success
I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Cracks Nuts Standing

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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