# Quote — Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas

> 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.

- Author: [Sheridan Le Fanu](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheridan-le-fanu.md)
- Book: [Uncle Silas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheridan-le-fanu/uncle-silas.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheridan-le-fanu/uncle-silas/how-marvellously-lie

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> There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

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> 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.

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> "The world," he resumed after a short pause, "has no faith in any man's conversion; it never forgets what he was, it never believes him anything better, it is an inexorable and stupid judge."

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