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!
BRAM STOKERA house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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Despair has its own calms.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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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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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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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 do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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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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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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