Consequence Quote by Arthur Machen

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“For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.”

Arthur Machen

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“We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.”

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“We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneath which men long ago veiled their knowledge of the most awful, most secret forces which lie at the heart of all things; forces…

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There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

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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 that if you walked briskly past the picture, winking both eyes as fast as possible, you really got a sort…

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Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the White House. Once in the road, free from the fields and brakes, he changed his run into a walk, and he never paused or stopped, till he came with a gulp of relief into the…

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