I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
BRAM STOKERMy revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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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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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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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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 want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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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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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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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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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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