Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
BRAM STOKERNo man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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The blood is the life!
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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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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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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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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