I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
BRAM STOKEROh, 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?
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Despair has its own calms.
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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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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in 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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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Despair has its own calms.
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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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