"The saint endeavors to recover a gift which……" — Arthur Machen
"The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall."
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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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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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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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And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like…
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