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 STOKEROnce again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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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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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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