"Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite."

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Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2016). “Uncle Silas: Horror Collections”, p.15, 谷月社

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#Soul Quotes #Lust Quotes #Secret Quotes

“The FBI released its report on [Hillary] Clinton's emails. It exonerated her almost completely, but a few days later Matt Lauer obliviously spent a full third of his interview with Clinton on the emails anyway. Lauer was widely pilloried for this.”
“I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong.”
“Next to love is the desire for love.”
“A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.”
“Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.”
“Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation -- and itâ€™s called October,”
“I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.”
“Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.”

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