I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
BRAM STOKERSleep has no place it can call its own.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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 sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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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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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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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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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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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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