I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
BRAM STOKEROur 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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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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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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