Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
BRAM STOKERSuddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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 bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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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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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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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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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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