There is a reason why all things are as they are.
BRAM STOKER
BRAM STOKER
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
Bram StokerBram Stoker 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.
Bram StokerBram Stoker But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
Bram StokerBram Stoker We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
Bram StokerBram Stoker 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?
Bram StokerBram Stoker Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
Bram StokerBram Stoker 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.
Bram StokerBram Stoker This man belongs to me, I want him!
Bram StokerBram Stoker 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!
Bram StokerBram Stoker A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
Bram StokerBram Stoker She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
Bram StokerBram Stoker Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
Bram StokerBram Stoker Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
Bram StokerBram Stoker You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
Bram StokerBram Stoker She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
Bram StokerBram Stoker Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
Bram StokerBram Stoker
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