We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
BRAM STOKERNo man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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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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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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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.
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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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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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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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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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