And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
BRAM STOKERI suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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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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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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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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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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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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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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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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