But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
BRAM STOKERWe learn of great things by little experiences.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in 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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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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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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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.
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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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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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