He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
BRAM STOKERThe Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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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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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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How 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.
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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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How 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.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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The Dead travel fast.
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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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