If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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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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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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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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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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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’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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