If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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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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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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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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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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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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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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