A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
BRAM STOKERThe only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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 stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Despair has its own calms.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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