There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
BRAM STOKERWe are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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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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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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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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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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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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