I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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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The blood is the life!
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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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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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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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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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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