"How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long - the care of cares - the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven - and straight you find a new stratum there."

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Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2012). “Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh”, p.542, tredition

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#Lying Quotes #Long Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.”
“If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing questions larger than self... I have seen that ennobling effect in people many, many times- expressed by those who found themselves engaged in genuine acts of democratic expression, who claimed their right to define the larger destiny of their community, their nations.”
“The next step in sculpture is motion.”
“I've enjoyed my retirement.”
“What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?”
“Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.”
“What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?”
“The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.”

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