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 STOKERI do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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