Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
BRAM STOKERFaith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Our 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.
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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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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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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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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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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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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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 wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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