I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
BRAM STOKERDespair has its own calms.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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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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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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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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