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
BRAM STOKERAll 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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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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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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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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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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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 suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Despair has its own calms.
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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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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