Sleep has no place it can call its own.
BRAM STOKERWe see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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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.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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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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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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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.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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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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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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