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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Born 1814 in Dublin · Died 1873 in Dublin
writer, journalist · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British Empire
Notable works: Countess Mircalla Karnstein, Uncle Silas, Carmilla
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- Carmilla
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Carmilla
From Project Gutenberg e-text #10007 (public domain in the USA).
You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me. and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.
“I have been in love with no one, and never shall,” she whispered, “unless it should be with you.”
— Spoken by a character · V. A Wonderful Likeness