Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
BRAM STOKERAh, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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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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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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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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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