I am glad that it is old and big. I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kill me. A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
~~~Dracula

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.
~~~Dracula

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
~~~Dracula

There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights.
~~~Dracula

He was easily secured, and, to my surprise, went with the attendants quite placidly, simply repeating over and over again: "The blood is the life! The blood is the life!"
~~~Dracula

"...You like life, and you want life?"
"Oh yes! but that is all right; you needn't worry about that!"
"But," I asked, "how are we to get the life without getting the soul also?" This seemed to puzzle him, so I followed it up:
"A nice time you'll have when you're flying out there, with the souls of thousands of flies, and spiders and birds and cats buzzing and twittering and miauing all round you. You've got their lives, you know, and you must put up with their souls!"
~~~Dracula

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

Don't you know that I am sane and earnest now; that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his soul?
~~~Dracula

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

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