In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“It is almost as if the nearer one approaches to a thing, the less it proves to be there, to exist at all.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share
In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine… — Robert Aickman Copy Share
When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are. — Robert Aickman Copy Share
After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would. — Robert Aickman Copy Share
“...human beings are compelled to massacre animals unceasingly, because human beings are simply unable to survive, for the most part, on apples and nuts.… — Robert Aickman Copy Share
“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust , so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited knowledge and… — Robert Aickman Copy Share
“Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you… — Robert Aickman Copy Share
“...Though it may not be a suitable comment for even this confidential record, I thought, by no means for the first time in such… — Robert Aickman Copy Share
“No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share
“Give up all the wild ideas that buzz round you like wasps. Or like bluebottles. […] Find a nice, ordinary girl, not too attractive… — Robert Aickman Copy Share
“There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share
“And as their love had begun a little before a quotation, so it ended a little after one.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share
“Dreams, [...], are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share
“Much to be preferred to boxing are fencing and revolver-practice, judo and study of poisons.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share
