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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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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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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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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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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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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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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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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 are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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