Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
BRAM STOKERIt is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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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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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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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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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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