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 STOKERWe learn of great things by little experiences.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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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 able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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