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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.

Bram Stoker

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
BRAM STOKER

Facem Such Feel Himself Horror Import Man Only True Understand
Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
BRAM STOKER

Doctors Doubt Eyebrows
The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
BRAM STOKER

Afraid Arrangement Fierce Haughty Inscrutable Man Sex Timid Woman
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.
BRAM STOKER

Apple Could Mouth Mystifying Original Ramin Resist Some Suppose Taste Temptation
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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Being Between Distinction Infinitesimal Man Omnipotent Paltry
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
BRAM STOKER

After Century Day Few Habitable House Made Make
Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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Deemed Done Electrical Friend Let Me Science Tell Today Unholy
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
BRAM STOKER

Care Know Men No One Starnger
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.
BRAM STOKER

Growing Ideas Mind
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.
BRAM STOKER

Country May People Way
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

Believe Efforts Enlightenment Love Wise
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
BRAM STOKER

All Assurance Past Safety Thing
He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
BRAM STOKER

Afterward Anywhere Bid Come Enter First Household Some Though Unless
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
BRAM STOKER

Century Deceive Kill Mere Modernity Old Own Power Sense Unless
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
BRAM STOKER

Mad Must Sanity Sometimes Strait Waistcoat Wake
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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All Are As Reason Thing

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