We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
BRAM STOKEROh, 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?
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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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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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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