"There is no such sense of solitude as……" — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings."
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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18 Quotes by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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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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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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