I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
BRAM STOKERI saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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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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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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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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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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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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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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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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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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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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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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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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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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