How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
BRAM STOKERThe blood is the life!
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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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Despair has its own calms.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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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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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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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.
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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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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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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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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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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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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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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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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