There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
BRAM STOKERI have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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The blood is the life!
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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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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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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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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
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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
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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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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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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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