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.
BRAM STOKERThe inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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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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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 we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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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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