Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
BRAM STOKERShe has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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The blood is the life!
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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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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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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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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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Despair has its own calms.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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