There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
BRAM STOKERIt is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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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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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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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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The blood is the life!
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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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.
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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