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.
BRAM STOKEROrdinary 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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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.
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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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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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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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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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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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