I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
BRAM STOKERIt was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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 is a reason why all things are as they are.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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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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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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The blood is the life!
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