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 STOKERThere is a reason why all things are as they are.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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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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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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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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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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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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