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 STOKERHow blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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 wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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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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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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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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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.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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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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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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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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