It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
BRAM STOKERHe means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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Despair has its own calms.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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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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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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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in 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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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