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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

Bram Stoker

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
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
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
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 a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
BRAM STOKER

Empty Feelings Woman World
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
BRAM STOKER

Assurance Past Safety
Take me away from all this Death.
BRAM STOKER

Away Death Squad Take
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
BRAM STOKER

Antidote Beneficient Death Mood Nature Ordained Own Some Terror
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
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
BRAM STOKER

Dream Imagine Play Wonderful
I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
BRAM STOKER

Cut Head Heart Her Off Take Want
I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
BRAM STOKER

Crack Hard Nut Stand Take Up
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.
BRAM STOKER

Being Between Distinction Infinitesimal Man Omnipotent Paltry
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

Allied Centralisation City Classification Closely Country
Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
BRAM STOKER

Crucifix Fear Ghostly Itself Lady Many Old Place Tradition
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
BRAM STOKER

All Are As Reason Thing

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