A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
BRAM STOKERGood women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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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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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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