"When common objects in this way be come……" — Algernon Blackwood
"When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us."
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Algernon Blackwood
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16 Quotes by Algernon Blackwood
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My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling…
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It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and…
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And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has…
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No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most…
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To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they…
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The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
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Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
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No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
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The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own…
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