No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
BRAM STOKERChasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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 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.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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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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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. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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The Dead travel fast.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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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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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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