“There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.” HumansSoundLevelsLonelinessStrangeSolitudeMountainExpectationsSilentFeaturesCompanionshipTremblingElevationAscentColossalExpanseElationUndefinedMisgivings Book:The Haunted Baronet Source: The Haunted Baronet
“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.” HumansSoulStoriesInterestSecretLustExplorationAppetiteForbiddenHuman SoulKnowledge Is PowerPower Of One Book:Uncle Silas: Horror Collections Source: Uncle Silas: Horror Collections
“Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.” WorldHumansSoulSometimesBornFlesh Author:Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
