He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
BRAM STOKERThe inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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The blood is the life!
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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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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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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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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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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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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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Despair has its own calms.
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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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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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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