I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
BRAM STOKERThere are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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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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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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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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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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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 fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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