We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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Despair has its own calms.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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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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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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