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.
BRAM STOKERThe Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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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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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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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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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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