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.
BRAM STOKERA house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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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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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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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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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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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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