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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.

Bram Stoker

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
BRAM STOKER

Blood Feels Men Women
Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
BRAM STOKER

Always Come Door Keep Laughter Like Person Suitability
For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
BRAM STOKER

Behind Lying People Song Sunshine
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
BRAM STOKER

Antidote Mood Terror
Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKER

Alone Alter Bearable Fact Help Make More Sympathy
I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
BRAM STOKER

Been Long Master None Other So Still
A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
BRAM STOKER

Brave Hands Itself Men
I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
BRAM STOKER

Able Bore Describe Dress Fashion Interest Know New Sufficient
The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
BRAM STOKER

Dulled Long Message Off Somewhat Star Way Word
I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
BRAM STOKER

Cut Head Heart Her Off Take Want
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 STOKER

Arm Comprehensive Gigantic Hear Mouth Radiating Shallow Tentaculae
I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
BRAM STOKER

Empty Feelings Woman World
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.
BRAM STOKER

Effort Free Our Pledge Secret Set Silence Toil World
A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKER

Diminish Experience Idea Intestified Personal
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
BRAM STOKER

All Things Reason
I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
BRAM STOKER

Cracks Nuts Standing

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.

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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.

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