He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
BRAM STOKERLoneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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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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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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 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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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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