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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.
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Haunted Baronet and Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70
Tags: unseen, unknown, superstition, religion

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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.
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Haunted Baronet and Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70
Tags: death, change
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.
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla
Tags: vampires, death
Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla
Tags: life, death
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