She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
BRAM STOKERTake me away from all this Death.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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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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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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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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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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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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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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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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Despair has its own calms.
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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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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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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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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