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.
BRAM STOKERThough sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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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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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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