As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
BRAM STOKERThere is a reason why all things are as they are.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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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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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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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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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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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.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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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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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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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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