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f600038 It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import. horror Bram Stoker
7140e67 I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea. dracula vampire horror Bram Stoker
6538d76 Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope. Bram Stoker
f04824d 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? love Bram Stoker
8fce55c I want to cut off her head and take out her heart. van-helsing Bram Stoker
2f11781 We learn of great things by little experiences. Bram Stoker
97a2e75 Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me. Bram Stoker
f373ffa She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. Bram Stoker
e8f3494 And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill. Bram Stoker
fed4ae3 It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine. imagination dreams dracula Bram Stoker
09fd628 Truly there is no such thing as finality. Bram Stoker
f2c1074 It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment. people humanity resilience Bram Stoker
8725523 And so you, like the others, would play your brains against mine. You would help these men to hunt me and frustrate me in my designs! You know now, and they know in part already, and will know in full before long, what it is to cross my path. They should have kept their energies for use closer to home. Whilst they played wits against me - against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before.. Bram Stoker
01f6f32 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. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall -- all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Bram Stoker
e04a87f Souls and memories can do strange things during trance. memories dreams strange Bram Stoker
4a404c5 Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands. Bram Stoker
305c5b6 Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night. tomb Bram Stoker
4d87abf We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor. Bram Stoker
47c3684 Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read. Bram Stoker
00c70b6 You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot? Bram Stoker
0c0d849 The blood is life... and it shall be mine! Bram Stoker
8e3a53d She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death. Bram Stoker
e8460f0 All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world. madness van-helsing Bram Stoker
591ea02 These friends - and he laid his hand on some of the books - have been good friends to me, and for some years past, ever since I had the idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pleasure. Through them I have come to know your great England; and to know her is to love her. I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its d.. dracula england vampire london horror Bram Stoker
2006dee Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. mankind silence men secret strength doubting efforts toil wise-men doubts strive effort Bram Stoker
a617803 What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man? Bram Stoker
24dddf4 There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration. Bram Stoker
7b04790 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. Bram Stoker
49b063a But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame! Bram Stoker
36b67e1 Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him! Bram Stoker
3151b40 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. 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. laughter grief joy Bram Stoker
f88d9dc With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight and with the other ceased my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound so that I must either suffocate or swallow... Bram Stoker
39c3dd5 Is it possible that love is all subjective, or all objective? Bram Stoker
c44939e Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn't at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out if his life Bram Stoker
9301ab5 Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same. van-helsing fighting-evil fight devil devils Bram Stoker
c35c56d To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious! Bram Stoker
1a18cfe The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told. war stoker peace Bram Stoker
d28dba6 We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this big, sorrowing man's head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were my own child. I never thought at the time how strange it all was. Bram Stoker
95d66ec He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow. patience Bram Stoker
ea01999 Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless. Bram Stoker
dbcfe8c Listen to them -- the children of the night. What music they make. Bram Stoker
ecfcd57 Go home, Johann -- Walpurgis nacht doesn't concern Englishmen. Bram Stoker
9cb0c52 THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST Bram Stoker