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 STOKERThere 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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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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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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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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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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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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 that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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