Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKERThere 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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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.
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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.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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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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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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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.
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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!
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Despair has its own calms.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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