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 STOKERThe angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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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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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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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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The Dead travel fast.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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