"I remember everything about it—with an effort. I……" — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent."
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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18 Quotes by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a…
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Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside…
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Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
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No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute…
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Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in…
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You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous…
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But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits…
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Women are so enigmatical – some in everything – all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire…
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I can not help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn will draw near to others,…
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You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that…
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Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
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For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon…
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