f600038
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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horror
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Bram Stoker |
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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. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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dracula
vampire
horror
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Bram Stoker |
6538d76
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Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.
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Bram Stoker |
f04824d
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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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love
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Bram Stoker |
8fce55c
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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van-helsing
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Bram Stoker |
2f11781
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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Bram Stoker |
97a2e75
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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Bram Stoker |
f373ffa
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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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Bram Stoker |
e8f3494
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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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Bram Stoker |
fed4ae3
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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imagination
dreams
dracula
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Bram Stoker |
09fd628
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Bram Stoker |
f2c1074
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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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people
humanity
resilience
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Bram Stoker |
8725523
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And so you, like the others, would play your brains against mine. You would help these men to hunt me and frustrate me in my designs! You know now, and they know in part already, and will know in full before long, what it is to cross my path. They should have kept their energies for use closer to home. Whilst they played wits against me - against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before..
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Bram Stoker |
01f6f32
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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. 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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Bram Stoker |
e04a87f
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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memories
dreams
strange
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Bram Stoker |
4a404c5
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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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Bram Stoker |
305c5b6
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Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.
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tomb
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Bram Stoker |
4d87abf
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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Bram Stoker |
47c3684
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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Bram Stoker |
00c70b6
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You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot?
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Bram Stoker |
0c0d849
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The blood is life... and it shall be mine!
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Bram Stoker |
8e3a53d
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Bram Stoker |
e8460f0
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All men are mad in some way or another, 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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madness
van-helsing
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Bram Stoker |
591ea02
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These friends - and he laid his hand on some of the books - have been good friends to me, and for some years past, ever since I had the idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pleasure. Through them I have come to know your great England; and to know her is to love her. I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its d..
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dracula
england
vampire
london
horror
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Bram Stoker |
2006dee
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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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mankind
silence
men
secret
strength
doubting
efforts
toil
wise-men
doubts
strive
effort
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Bram Stoker |
a617803
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What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?
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Bram Stoker |
24dddf4
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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Bram Stoker |
7b04790
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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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Bram Stoker |
49b063a
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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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Bram Stoker |
36b67e1
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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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Bram Stoker |
3151b40
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. 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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laughter
grief
joy
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Bram Stoker |
f88d9dc
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With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight and with the other ceased my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound so that I must either suffocate or swallow...
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Bram Stoker |
39c3dd5
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Is it possible that love is all subjective, or all objective?
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Bram Stoker |
c44939e
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Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn't at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out if his life
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Bram Stoker |
9301ab5
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Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.
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van-helsing
fighting-evil
fight
devil
devils
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Bram Stoker |
c35c56d
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!
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Bram Stoker |
1a18cfe
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The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.
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war
stoker
peace
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Bram Stoker |
d28dba6
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We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this big, sorrowing man's head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were my own child. I never thought at the time how strange it all was.
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Bram Stoker |
95d66ec
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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patience
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Bram Stoker |
ea01999
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Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.
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Bram Stoker |
dbcfe8c
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Listen to them -- the children of the night. What music they make.
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Bram Stoker |
ecfcd57
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Go home, Johann -- Walpurgis nacht doesn't concern Englishmen.
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Bram Stoker |
9cb0c52
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THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST
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