I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
BRAM STOKERI’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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.
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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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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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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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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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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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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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