Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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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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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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