Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
BRAM STOKERNo man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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