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.
BRAM STOKERFor life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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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 blood is the life!
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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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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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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