And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
BRAM STOKERChasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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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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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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