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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.

Bram Stoker

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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Country May People Way
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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Animal Ideas Looks Obstacle
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
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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After Anything Between Light Love Selfish Shadow Stand Thing Throwm Balck
Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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Crucifix Fear Ghostly Itself Lady Many Old Place Tradition
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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All Deal Discreet God Inasmuch Mad Madame Men Other Some Way
Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Finality Thing
Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Country Dead Denn Die Fast People Person Refer Travel
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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Done Long Men
A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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Brave Even Han Hear Itself Love Man Music Need Speak Woman
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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Dream Fear Sweet
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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Children Home Land Quickest
Despair has its own calms.
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Calm Despair Own
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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Human Nature Really Resilience Wonderful
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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Girl Ground Like Lot Made Man Must Trod Unhappy Worship
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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Begin Empire Evidence Exist Have Some Such
For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Behind Lying People Song Sunshine
Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Own Place Sleep
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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Children Listen Maker Music Night
You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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Love never Not Past So Tell Yourselves Youself
Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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Alone Alter Bearable Fact Help Make More Sympathy
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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Light Love Selfish
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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Feet Flames Night Tread
I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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Able Bore Describe Dress Fashion Interest Know New Sufficient
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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All Things Reason
Take me away from all this Death.
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Away Death Squad Take
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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Explain Faith Nothing Say Science Want

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