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.
BRAM STOKERHow good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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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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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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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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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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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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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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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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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 am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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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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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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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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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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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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