We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
BRAM STOKERAnd yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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Despair has its own calms.
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The blood is the life!
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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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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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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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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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