It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
BRAM STOKERWhether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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