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.
BRAM STOKERThere are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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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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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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Despair has its own calms.
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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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.
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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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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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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