It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

Bram Stoker
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More Quotes By Bram Stoker
  1. I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

  2. 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.

  3. These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmengive themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity seesno difference between an eagle and a sparrow.

  4. We learn from failure, not from success!

  5. Fe es aquello que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.

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