For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
BRAM STOKERDenn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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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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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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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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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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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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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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