He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
BRAM STOKERSleep has no place it can call its own.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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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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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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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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