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Before. He wore a look of stern sadness and infinite pity. "As I expected," he murmured, with that hissing inspiration

Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.

i would rather be an angel than God

And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money! What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do when basely used.

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

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and she was better dead.

There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman.

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

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

Man cannot be trusted unless they are watched

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.

Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.

Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that I may not go mad, if, indeed, I be not mad already.

This man belongs to me, I want him!

I trust that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land.--Your friend, Dracula.

We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship.

His face fell, and I could see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong look which meant killing.

I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don't know how I should be able to get on without it.

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

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

It's better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world.

Even his stalwart manhood seemed to have shrunk somewhat under

You must not be alone; for to be alone is to be full of fears amd alarms.

You will not be content, I know, to remain in the dark. Nay, the end, the very end, may give you a gleam of peace.

Our bird when he found the cage open would not fly

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I am anxious, and it soothes me to express myself here. It is like whispering to one's self and listening at the same time.

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

Do not fear to think even the most not-probable.

I am beginning to feel this nocturnal existence tell on me.

and the crash of the thunder, and the booming of the mighty billows came through the damp oblivion even louder than before.

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

It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

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!

And then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me.

Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.

So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist - and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so sceptical and selfish.

I am getting quite uneasy about him, though why I should I do not know, but I do wish that he would write, if it were only a single line

Tell me about it dear; for there is nothing which interests you which will not be dear to me

Festina lente may well be his motto

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

I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will I trust, excuse me that I do not join you, but I have dined already, and I do not sup.

You English have a saying which is close to my heart, for its spirit is that which rules our boyars: Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

The captain swore polyglot -very polyglot- polyglot with bloom and blood.

Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.

I felt that it was getting very late indeed, but I did not say anything, for I felt under obligation to meet my host's wishes in ever way.

And then he cried, till he laughed again, and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does. I

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.

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.

There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.

Still, your mind works true, and argues not a particulari ad universale.

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

Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!" The

I desire it much, nay I will take no refusal.

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

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

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 ...

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

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.

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

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.

I ain't afraid of dyin', not a bit, only I don't want to die if I can help it.

May I cut off the head of dead Miss Lucy?

I passed to my room and went to be, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. despair has it's own calms.

I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

Clasps his laps around minas throat, pieces her skin and drinks her blood. He then forces her into an act that binds her to the vampire for eternity

When his head had disappeared, I leaned out to try and see more, but without avail.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

I promise. and as I said it I felt that from that instant a door had been shut between us.

A kitten, a nice, little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed, and feed, and feed!

The devils at once, it matters not. We must fight him all the same. He went to the hall door for his bag, and together we went up to Lucy's room.

There is hardly a foot of soil in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men, patriots or invaders.

When Mrs. Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn't the same. It was like tea after the teapot has been watered.

The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac.

Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

I am Dracula;and i bid you welcome,Mr. Harker,to my house.

I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to use my power.

why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them?

The blood is the life!

It is odd that a thing which I have been taught to regard with disfavour and as idolatrous should in a time of loneliness and trouble be of help.

Despair has its own calms.

Stepping forth to replenish it, for now the snow came in flying sweeps

Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man.

My fear fell from me as if it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth.

Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise.

Sleep has no place it can call its own.

We learn from failure, not from success!

We sat down on a bench within good view, and began to smoke cigars so as to attract as little attention as possible.

The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.

more I have seen the count go out in his lizard fashion.

Does that city create its citizens, or is the city only a dream of its citizens.

This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more.

He bore himself through it like a moral Viking.

Ask me nothings as yet. When we have breakfast, then I answer all questions.

Unconscious cerebration was doing its work, even with the lunatic.

The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires.