There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
BRAM STOKERFor 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?
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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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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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 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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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Despair has its own calms.
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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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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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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