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.
BRAM STOKERThe blood is the life!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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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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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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