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 STOKERLoneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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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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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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