"There are sacraments of evil as well as……" — Arthur Machen
"There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead."
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Arthur Machen
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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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