Quotes from Bram Stoker

Your friend, Dracula.

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Mas um estranho em uma terra estrangeira, ele não é ninguém; os homens não o conhecem, e não conhecer é não cuidar.

Pero un extranjero en una tierra extranjera, no es nadie; los hombres no lo conocen, y no conocer es no importar.

doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted.

Fortunately, I am not of a fainting disposition

mamaliga, and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call impletata. (Mem., get recipe for this also.)

May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.

Los locos siempre razonan bien, dentro de su propia esfera.

Does that city create its citizens, or is the city only a dream of its citizens.

Cuántos de nosotros empezamos un nuevo registro cada día de nuestra vida?

There are darknesses in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Trumpai tariant, tai vyras, kurio stipryb? ir dr?sa puikiai tinka bet kokiam sumanymui ?gyvendinti. Jis išdr?sta ir išdr?st? padaryti bet k? pasaulyje arba už jo rib?, žem?je ar po žeme, j?roje ar ore, nebijodamas nieko materialaus ar nereg?to: nei žmogaus ar vaiduoklio, nei Dievo, nei Velnio.

I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know that they will be. Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man.

É estranho como uma coisa que fui ensinado a considerar com desagrado e como idolatria seja, em um momento de solidão e dificuldade, uma fonte de ajuda. Será que há algo na essência da coisa em si, ou será ela um meio, uma ajuda tangível, na transmissão de lembranças de simpatia e acolhimento?

he bore himself through it like a moral Viking.

I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

I have crossed oceans of time to find you. ~ Dracula

Permita que eu fique calmo, pois fora da tranquilidade só há insanidade.

Tem alguma coisa naquele vento e no nevoeiro. É algo que parece ter o jeito, o som, o gosto e o cheiro da morte.

I felt doubts and fears crowding upon me. What sort of place had I come to, and among what kind of people?

Listen to them - the children of the night. What music they make!

In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: Saxons in the south, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the west; and Szekelys in the east and north.

Nessuno può sapere, se non dopo una notte di patimenti, quanto dolce e prezioso al cuore e agli occhi possa essere il mattino.