Monday, November 8, 2010

Meandering on the edge . . .

Today is the birthday of Abraham "Bram" Stoker (November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912), novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.

"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
- Bram Stoker

“I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.”
- Bram Stoker

"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. 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."
- Bram Stoker

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."
- Bram Stoker

"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."
- Bram Stoker

"There is a reason why all things are as they are."
- Bram Stoker

Stoker stamp image source (1)

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