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 STOKERI have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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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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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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