Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
BRAM STOKERThis man belongs to me, I want him!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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 suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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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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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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