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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

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
BRAM STOKER

Hate Longing Together
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.
BRAM STOKER

Accurate Everything Let Seen Some Strange Thing Though Together
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
BRAM STOKER

Bless Bring Come Dread Fear How Live Nighty Nothing People Sleep Some
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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Brood Loneliness Our Over Roof Sit Wing
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
BRAM STOKER

All Anchor Drift Faith Now Only Our Reward
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!
BRAM STOKER

Away Children Curse Devil Home Land Near Quicker Stil Train Walk
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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Human Nature Really Resilience Wonderful
She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Beautiful Death Grey Pale
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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All Things Reason
But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
BRAM STOKER

Hush Inquisitive Make Other Question Tell
Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Heart Men might
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 Deceiving Modernity Power
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
BRAM STOKER

Century Revenge Sides
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
BRAM STOKER

Able Perhaps Success
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
BRAM STOKER

Always Animal Between Durability Look Obstacle Pronounce Some Thought Us Well Wild
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.
BRAM STOKER

Enemies Mankind Safety Soul Willing
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 STOKER

Body Envelope Foreign Gather Insensitive Nature Protect Round Somebody Like Dam Tissue
I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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Alone Go Into Let Unknown
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
BRAM STOKER

After Anything Between Light Love Selfish Shadow Stand Thing Throwm Balck
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
BRAM STOKER

Deemed Done Electrical Friend Let Me Science Tell Today Unholy
I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
BRAM STOKER

Doing Empty Feel Importance Nothing Seem Sort Sufficient World Worth
For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
BRAM STOKER

After Death Depend Life Only Rightly Something Waiting
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.
BRAM STOKER

Explain Faith Nothing Say Science Want
A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKER

Diminish Experience Idea Intestified Personal
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.
BRAM STOKER

Armor Enemy Glory God Honour Love Peril Safety Sheath Soul Weapon
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
Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
BRAM STOKER

Country Dead Denn Die Fast People Person Refer Travel

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.

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