A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
BRAM STOKERBecause if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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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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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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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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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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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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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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