Despair has its own calms.
BRAM STOKERAnd yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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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 longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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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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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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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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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