I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
BRAM STOKERBut this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Despair has its own calms.
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There 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.
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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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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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Ah, 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.
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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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