For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
BRAM STOKERThese infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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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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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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The blood is the life!
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