He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
BRAM STOKERBefore I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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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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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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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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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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