But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
BRAM STOKERWe see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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Despair has its own calms.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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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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The blood is the life!
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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