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.
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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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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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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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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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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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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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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