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 STOKERSleep has no place it can call its own.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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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.
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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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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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