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.
BRAM STOKERDespair has its own calms.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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The Dead travel fast.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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.
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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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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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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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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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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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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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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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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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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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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