Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKERThough sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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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 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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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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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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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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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