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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

Bram Stoker

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
Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
BRAM STOKER

Angel Day Good Hour Live Minute Read Tell Thing Women
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
I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
BRAM STOKER

Bessie Country End Girl Last Peace Place Poor Shoot Well
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
BRAM STOKER

All Are As Reason Thing
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

Feet Men Mustache White
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
BRAM STOKER

Brood Loneliness Our Over Roof Sit Wing
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
Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
BRAM STOKER

Believing Enlightened Men Wise
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
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
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
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
BRAM STOKER

Century House Made
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
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
BRAM STOKER

Mean Men Patience
Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
BRAM STOKER

Care Nature Night Noon State Suspend Wait

I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

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