For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
BRAM STOKERShe was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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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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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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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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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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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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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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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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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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