A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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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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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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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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The blood is the life!
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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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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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!
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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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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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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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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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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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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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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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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