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 STOKERBecause if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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