J. Sheridan Le Fanu said this quote

“ Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exists and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths. ”

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You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.

~ J. Sheridan Le Fanu

J. Sheridan Le Fanu Death Hatred Love Selfishness

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

~ J. Sheridan Le Fanu

J. Sheridan Le Fanu Death Life

You are afraid to die?'Yes, everyone is.'But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls are caterpillars when they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structures.

~ J. Sheridan Le Fanu

J. Sheridan Le Fanu Death Vampires

Places change imperceptibly – in detail, at least – a good deal,' said the Doctor, making an effort to keep up a conversation that plainly would not go on itself; 'and people too; population shifts – there's an old fellow, sir, they call Death.

~ J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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