Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
BRAM STOKERThere 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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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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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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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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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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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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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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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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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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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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