Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
BRAM STOKERWithin, 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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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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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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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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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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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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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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