Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
BRAM STOKERHe means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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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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