# Quote — Bram Stoker, Dracula

> One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.

- Author: [Bram Stoker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bram-stoker.md)
- Book: [Dracula](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bram-stoker/dracula.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/bram-stoker/dracula/one-and-all

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> Jonathan Harker's Journal, 4 May. From Bürger's "Lenore"

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> “He is young and strong; there are kisses for us all.”

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> “Friend John, forgive me if I pain. I showed not my feeling to others when it would wound, but only to you, my old friend, whom I can trust. If you could have looked into my very heart then when I want to laugh; if you could have done so when the laugh arrived; if you could do so now, when King Laugh have pack up his crown, and all that is to him — for he go far, far away from me, and for a long, long time — maybe you would perhaps pity me the most of all.”
>
> I was touched by the tenderness of his tone, and asked why.
>
> “Because I know!”

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