A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKERYou cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Despair has its own calms.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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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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She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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