Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
BRAM STOKERWe 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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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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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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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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