I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
BRAM STOKERSafety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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Despair has its own calms.
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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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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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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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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 have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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