Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
BRAM STOKERI suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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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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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 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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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Oh, 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?
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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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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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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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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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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 Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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