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.
BRAM STOKERI’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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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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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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