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.
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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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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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 suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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