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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 him.

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

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

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.

Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)

You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?

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.

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!

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 by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

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

There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture Then lapped the white, sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited.

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... Some of the...Oh my god…my god What have I done?

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

We learn of great things by little experiences.

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

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

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

I will not let you go into the unknown alone.

Sleep has no place it can call its own.

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.