I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
BRAM STOKERI could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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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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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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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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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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