It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
BRAM STOKERYou yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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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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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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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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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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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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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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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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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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