I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
BRAM STOKERDespair has its own calms.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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