I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
BRAM STOKERBut a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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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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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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