He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
BRAM STOKERHow 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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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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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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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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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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