Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
BRAM STOKERThe blood is life… and it shall be mine!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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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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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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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 are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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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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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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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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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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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 do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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