We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
BRAM STOKERI am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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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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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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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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