Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
BRAM STOKERFaith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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.
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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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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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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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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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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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 could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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But 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.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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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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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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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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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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