"Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and……" — Arthur Machen
"Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago."
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22 Quotes by Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen has 22 quotes on this site.
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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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For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and…
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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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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often…
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It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many…
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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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Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to…
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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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For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to…
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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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More Accepted Quotes
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
— Arthur Ashe
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but…
— Michelle Bachelet
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your…
— John Adams
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In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans,…
— Mario Batali
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
— Joe Biden
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm…
— Mary J. Blige
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
— Terry Bradshaw
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
— Jessica Alba
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