J. Sheridan Le Fanu Quotes
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu Famous Quotes & Sayings
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But curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.
the wicked woman's son was evidently making love to the girl. Both were standing by the old window-seat,
Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener.
Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please.
Berthe was wonderfully well educated for a Frenchwoman of that period, and surprisingly handsome for a Frenchwoman of any.
In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die - die sweetly die - into mine.
Truth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me: you say it wearies you; But how I got it
came by it.
came by it.
D'Avray, her father, and I had met before in Algeria. He was dying now. He left the child on his death-bed to me.
The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.
There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.
The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.
I believe the entire natural world is but the ultimate expression of that spiritual world from which, and in which alone, it has its life.
In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.