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“I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“..the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Krew elfów

“There is never a second opportunity to make a first impression.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny

“There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale,”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“A mother, you son-of-a-bitch, is sacred!”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny

“Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski

“I have to return some videotapes”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
― Anne Rice