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.
BRAM STOKERSafety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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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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The blood is the life!
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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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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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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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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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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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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