Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
BRAM STOKERThere is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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Despair has its own calms.
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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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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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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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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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