We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
BRAM STOKERIf this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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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 fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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