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!
BRAM STOKERThere are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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