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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.

Bram Stoker

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
BRAM STOKER

Confess Doubt Fear Sea Thinking
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
Sleep has no place it can call its own.
BRAM STOKER

Call Own Place Spent
Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
BRAM STOKER

Alter Believe Destiny Even Luckiest Man Power Purpose Single Time
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
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
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
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKER

Animal Ideas Looks Obstacle
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
BRAM STOKER

All Different Direction Drawn Fight Like Men Pull Rope Strain Women
Despair has its own calms.
BRAM STOKER

Calm Despair Own
Truly there is no such thing as finality.
BRAM STOKER

Finality Thing
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
BRAM STOKER

Able Failure From Learn Much Perhaps Success
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
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

Dream Fear Sweet
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
I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
BRAM STOKER

Bid Dracula Welcome You

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.

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