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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 â€“ an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings."

Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “The Haunted Baronet”, p.52, 谷月社

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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“I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.”

Source : Jesse Stuart (1958). “Thread that Runs So True”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but itâ€™s over, and Iâ€™m not going to think about it.”
“I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?”
“There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.”
“I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.”
“The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.”
“As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.”
“A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.”

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