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• Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!

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• He came back full of life and hope and determination.

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• The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protuded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.

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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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• How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.

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• Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

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• Despair has its own calms.

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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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• 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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• 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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• There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

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• Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

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• No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

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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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• It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

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• It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

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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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• 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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• He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

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• Despair has its own calms.

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Bram Stoker (25)

Birth:	8th November, 1847
Death:	20th April, 1912
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Novelist

About

Bram Stoker was born in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland. He was an Irish novelist known today for his 1897 Gothic novel, Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. He graduated with honours as a B.A. in Mathematics.

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