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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.”
“I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me.”
“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate...”
“Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh.”
“. . . a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.”
“It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.”
“He came back full of life and hope and determination.”
“Let me advise you, my dear young friend-- nay, let me warn you with all seriousness, that should you leave these rooms you will not by any chance go to sleep in any other part of the castle. It is ...”
“Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.”
“I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success.”
“He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.”
“I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine house in London, and when he went for months of summer to Switzerland and lock up his house, some burglar came and broke window at back and got in. Th...”
“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds true love?”
“It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an...”
“It all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is mos...”
“I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander ...”
“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.”
“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”
“If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.”
“I have been so long masterthat I would be master still, or at least that none othershould be master of me.”
