“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.”

— J. Sheridan Le Fanu, book Uncle Silas

Source: Uncle Silas (1864), Ch. 53

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