A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKERLet me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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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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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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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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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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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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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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