I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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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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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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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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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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The blood is the life!
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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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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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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 a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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