I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
BRAM STOKERWe are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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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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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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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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