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> [“Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival... a survival of a hugely remote period when... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes in forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity... forms of which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/of-such-great-powers-or-beings-there-may-be-conceivably-a-survival-a/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

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## More by Algernon Blackwood

> [Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/time-is-measured-by-the-quality-and-not-the-quanity-of-sensations-it/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [“Deep silence fell about the little camp, planted there so audaciously in the jaws of the wilderness. The lake gleamed like a sheet of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/deep-silence-fell-about-the-little-camp-planted-there-so-audaciously/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [“Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/certain-houses-like-certain-persons-manage-somehow-to-proclaim-at/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/not-easily-may-an-individual-escape-the-deep-slavery-of-the-herd/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/ritual-is-the-passage-way-of-the-soul-into-the-infinite/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [“The dusk rapidly deepened; the glades grew dark; the crackling of the fire and the wash of little waves along the rocky lake shore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/the-dusk-rapidly-deepened-the-glades-grew-dark-the-crackling-of-the/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [“The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/the-psychology-of-places-for-some-imaginations-at-least-is-very-vivid/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/adventures-come-to-the-adventurous-and-mysterious-things-fall-in-the/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [“The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/the-impulse-came-to-her-clairvoyantly-and-she-obeyed-without-a-sign/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [“He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch. ("The Wendigo")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/he-gave-it-the-benefit-of-the-doubt-he-was-scotch-the-wendigo/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [“You know," he went on almost under his breath, "every man who thinks for himself and feels vividly finds he lives in a world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/you-know-he-went-on-almost-under-his-breath-every-man-who-thinks-for/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [“In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and define it, but the ascertaining of an elusive scent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/in-spite-of-his-exceeding-mental-perturbation-simpson-struggled-hard/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [“She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/she-feared-long-words-she-did-not-understand-beelzebub-lay-hid-among/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [“And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about his heart.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/and-it-was-in-that-moment-of-distress-and-confusion-that-the-whip-of/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

> [The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/the-best-match-in-the-world-will-not-light-a-candle-unless-the-wick/)

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