“There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we must study, and to whose conditions we must submit, if we would mitigate it.”

—  J. Sheridan Le Fanu, book Uncle Silas

Source: Uncle Silas (1864), Ch. 21

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Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels 1814–1873

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