I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
BRAM STOKERThere is a reason why all things are as they are.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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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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The blood is the life!
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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 sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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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.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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