Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
BRAM STOKERThere was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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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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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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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.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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Despair has its own calms.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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!
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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!
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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’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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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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