Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
BRAM STOKERBut a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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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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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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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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