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.
BRAM STOKERIt is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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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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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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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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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!
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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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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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