And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
BRAM STOKERTruly there is no such thing as finality.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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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 see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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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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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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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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