He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
BRAM STOKERI stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in 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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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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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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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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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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