I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
BRAM STOKERAnd yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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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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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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