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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 suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
BRAM STOKER

Coward Men Thinking
We learn from failure, not from success!
BRAM STOKER

Inspirational Learning Wisdom
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

Children Home Land Quickest
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
BRAM STOKER

Century Revenge Sides
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
Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
BRAM STOKER

During Memory Soul Strange Thing Trance
Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
BRAM STOKER

Comfort Country Excellent Grateful Invent People Person Word
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
Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
BRAM STOKER

Heart Men might
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

Firsts Household May Please
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
BRAM STOKER

Evidence Ghouls Past Teaching
She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
BRAM STOKER

Enter Fashion God Hand Heaven One Own Show Women
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
Take me away from all this Death.
BRAM STOKER

All Away Death Talk
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
BRAM STOKER

Actor Fame Minute Second Won Year
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
BRAM STOKER

Children Listen Maker Music Night
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
BRAM STOKER

Bees Escaping Following Naked Nothing
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
BRAM STOKER

Dream Pain Sweet
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
The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
BRAM STOKER

Beautiful Soul World
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
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
BRAM STOKER

Dream Fear Harmed Heart Horror
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

Amn Black Clad Clean Foot Head Long Mustache Old Save Shaven Stood Tall
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
BRAM STOKER

Dear Heart Man Morning Night No Suffer Sweet
Enter freely and of your own free will!
BRAM STOKER

Enter Free Freely Own Will
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
BRAM STOKER

Dream Imagine Play Wonderful

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