I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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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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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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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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Despair has its own calms.
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