But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
BRAM STOKERThe fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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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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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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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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