Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
BRAM STOKERAnd yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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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.
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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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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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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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