I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
BRAM STOKERI have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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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.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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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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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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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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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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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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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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