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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.

Bram Stoker

You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
BRAM STOKER

Love never Not Past So Tell Yourselves Youself
All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
BRAM STOKER

All Deal Discreet God Inasmuch Mad Madame Men Other Some Way
There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
BRAM STOKER

Growing Ideas Mind
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
BRAM STOKER

Coward Men Thinking
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
BRAM STOKER

All Sea Congress Dare Doubt Fear Own Soul Strange Thing Think Wonde
We learn from failure, not from success!
BRAM STOKER

Failure Inspiration Learn Success
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Conveniently Dream Imagine Play Trick Wonderful
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?
BRAM STOKER

Behind Lying People Song Sunshine
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
BRAM STOKER

Coward Man Marry Save Such Suppose Think Women
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
BRAM STOKER

Age Guess Men Mystery Only Part Solve
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.
BRAM STOKER

Ever Heaven Men More Name Nothing Often Ordinary Possible Think
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 STOKER

Children Home Land Quickest
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,
BRAM STOKER

Care Nature Night Noon State Suspend Wait
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 STOKER

Brain Gift Heart Man Much Should Women
Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Own Place Sleep
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
BRAM STOKER

Brood Loneliness Our Over Roof Sit Wing

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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