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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.

Bram Stoker

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
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,
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Care Nature Night Noon State Suspend Wait
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
BRAM STOKER

All Anchor Drift Faith Now Only Our Reward
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
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
It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
BRAM STOKER

Facem Such Feel Himself Horror Import Man Only True Understand
Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
BRAM STOKER

Heart Men might
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
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
BRAM STOKER

Castle Count Entrance Fix Left More Undead
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
Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Finality Thing
Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Own Place Sleep
Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
BRAM STOKER

During Memory Soul Strange Thing Trance
Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
BRAM STOKER

Always Come Door Keep Laughter Like Person Suitability
Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
BRAM STOKER

Believe Faculty Faith
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

We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.

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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.

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