I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
BRAM STOKERTruly there is no such thing as finality.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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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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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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