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.
BRAM STOKEREuthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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Despair has its own calms.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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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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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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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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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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The blood is the life!
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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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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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