Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
BRAM STOKERThere are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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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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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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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, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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