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!
BRAM STOKERAnd then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I 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.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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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 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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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 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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The blood is the life!
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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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