There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
BRAM STOKERDenn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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 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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Take me away from all this Death.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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