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.
BRAM STOKERBut we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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Despair has its own calms.
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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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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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