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.
BRAM STOKERIt 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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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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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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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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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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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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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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