I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
BRAM STOKERThere is a reason why all things are as they are.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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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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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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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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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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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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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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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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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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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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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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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Despair has its own calms.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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The blood is the life!
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