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.
BRAM STOKERDoctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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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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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 bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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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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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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