Bram Stoker Quotes
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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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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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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 you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.
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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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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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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.
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The blood is life... and it shall be mine!
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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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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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.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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Go home, Johann - Walpurgis nacht doesn't concern Englishmen.
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She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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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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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.
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He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.