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There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my kno...

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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that ...

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Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!

I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even ...

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Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes and troubles...

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And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him.

Dracula

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to ...

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The effect on Lucy was not bad, for the faint seemed to merge subtly into the narcotic sleep. It was...

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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all l...

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What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy’s...

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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...

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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy o...

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There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowl...

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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry h...

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The New Annotated Dracula

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

The Jewel of Seven Stars

Walpurgis Night, when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad - when th...

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Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have t...

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Dracula

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced dur...

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Let me advise you, my dear young friend-- nay, let me warn you with all seriousness, that should you...

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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true...

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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How the...

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I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me.

It all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Every...

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Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matte...

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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it w...

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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men belie...

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We learn from failure, not from success!

Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh.

I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for...

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preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced. Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the p...

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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she ...

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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when K...

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Some of the 'New Women' writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to ...

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She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good...

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I have been so long masterthat I would be master still, or at least that none othershould be master ...

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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true l...

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Dracula

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so dea...

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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not the tr...

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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 wou...

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for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to m...

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In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

Are we to have nothing tonight?" said one of them, with a low laugh, as she pointed to the bag which...

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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

I am glad that it is old and big. I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kil...

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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning...

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Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix its...

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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

Dracula

I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine house in London, and when he went for months of summe...

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He came back full of life and hope and determination.

Fe es aquello que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitiv...

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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That th...

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Dracula

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the origina...

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. . . a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination cou...

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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some peo...

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Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

These friends - and he laid his hand on some of the books - have been good friends to me, and for so...

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And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin;...

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There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very ma...

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Bram Stoker

Novelist

Born: 1847-11-08

Died: 1912-04-20

Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer who wrote under the name Bram Stoker, and was the author of the horror novel Dracula.More