How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
BRAM STOKERThe Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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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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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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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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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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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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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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