A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
BRAM STOKERAs yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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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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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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The Dead travel fast.
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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.
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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