"It appears to me that it [sin] is……" — Arthur Machen
"It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. There are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into other spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still."
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22 Quotes by Arthur Machen
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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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Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
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In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.
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