I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
BRAM STOKERBecause if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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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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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Despair has its own calms.
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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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