But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
BRAM STOKERA personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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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.
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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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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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Despair has its own calms.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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 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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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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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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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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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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