I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
BRAM STOKERBut we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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