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.
BRAM STOKERMy revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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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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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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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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