Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
BRAM STOKERIt is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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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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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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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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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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