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 STOKERThere are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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Keep 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.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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The Dead travel fast.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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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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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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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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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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We 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.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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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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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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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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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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