It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
BRAM STOKERWe learn of great things by little experiences.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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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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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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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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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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The blood is the life!
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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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