We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
BRAM STOKERI suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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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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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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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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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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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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!
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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