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 STOKERI have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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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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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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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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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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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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The blood is the life!
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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