Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
BRAM STOKEREven 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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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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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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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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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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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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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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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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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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