But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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 been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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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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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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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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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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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