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> [“Here, I could see, was choice matter on which the expert and art critic could exercise their knowledge and judgment. As I had neither, I made an experiment or two, and was able to inform the readers of the paper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/here-i-could-see-was-choice-matter-on-which-the-expert-and-art-critic/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

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## More by Arthur Machen

> [We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/we-both-wondered-whether-these-contradictions-that-one-can-t-avoid-if/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

> [The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/the-saint-endeavors-to-recover-a-gift-which-he-has-lost-the-sinner/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

> [“Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/happiness-said-de-quincey-on-his-discovery-of-the-paradise-that-he/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

> [“He knew then how the dull flesh of man can be like fire”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/he-knew-then-how-the-dull-flesh-of-man-can-be-like-fire/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

> [“By what seemed then and still seems a chance, the suggestion of a moment’s idle thought followed up upon familiar lines and paths that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/by-what-seemed-then-and-still-seems-a-chance-the-suggestion-of-a/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

> [It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/it-is-all-nonsense-to-be-sure-and-so-much-the-greater-nonsense/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

> [“We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/we-have-just-begun-to-navigate-a-strange-region-we-must-expect-to/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

> [“We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/we-know-what-happened-to-those-who-chanced-to-meet-the-great-god-pan/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

> [There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/there-are-strange-things-lost-and-forgotten-in-obscure-corners-of-the/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

> [“Here, I could see, was choice matter on which the expert and art critic could exercise their knowledge and judgment. As I had neither,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/here-i-could-see-was-choice-matter-on-which-the-expert-and-art-critic/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

> [Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/very-softly-but-very-swiftly-last-the-man-with-the-grey-face-and-the/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

> [It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/it-was-better-he-thought-to-fail-in-attempting-exquisite-things-than/)

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> [And it is utterly true that he who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/and-it-is-utterly-true-that-he-who-cannot-find-wonder-mystery-awe-the/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

> [Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/every-branch-of-human-knowledge-if-traced-up-to-its-source-and-final/)

[Arthur Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-machen/)

> [silence is not weakness and decency is not pride](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-machen/silence-is-not-weakness-and-decency-is-not-pride/)

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