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.
BRAM STOKERI suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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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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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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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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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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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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The blood is the life!
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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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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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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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