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 STOKERHe 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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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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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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