Bram Stoker - Dracula (1897)

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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.

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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.

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One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.

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

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Nothing is too small. 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!

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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer—both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

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Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

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Go home, Johann — Walpurgis nacht doesn't concern Englishmen.

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Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

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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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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

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For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

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He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.

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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

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

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You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced.

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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.

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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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Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.

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