It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
BRAM STOKERHe means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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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. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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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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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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