But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
BRAM STOKEREven 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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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!
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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The blood is the life!
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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.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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