She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
BRAM STOKERThere 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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!
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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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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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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