Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
BRAM STOKERThere 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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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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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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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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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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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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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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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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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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