Arthur Machen Quotes

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• Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the…
• For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
• Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace…
• If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in…
• It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any…
• 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…
• Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has…
• 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…
• 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…
• Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
• It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
• In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.
• And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say,…
• I dream in fire but work in clay.
• We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that…
• There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.
• Old stories often turn out to be true.
• 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…
• silence is not weakness and decency is not pride
• We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am…

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