Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
BRAM STOKEROur toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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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.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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