We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
BRAM STOKERWithin, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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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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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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Despair has its own calms.
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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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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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?
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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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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The Dead travel fast.
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