"For, contrary to the common opinion, it is……" — Arthur Machen
"For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty."
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Arthur Machen
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22 Quotes by Arthur Machen
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Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life,…
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Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the…
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It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a…
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The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never…
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Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly…
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In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.
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