But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
BRAM STOKERDespair has its own calms.
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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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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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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