He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
BRAM STOKERRemember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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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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