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.
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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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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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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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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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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