The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
BRAM STOKERKeep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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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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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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It 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.
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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 saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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