The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
BRAM STOKERBut 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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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The Dead travel fast.
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Despair has its own calms.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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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!
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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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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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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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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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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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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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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