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!
BRAM STOKERFaith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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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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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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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.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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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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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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