But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
BRAM STOKERNature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Despair has its own calms.
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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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