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Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of…
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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to…
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It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner.…
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The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In…
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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
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There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.
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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…
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For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to…
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Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the…
— Jacques Maritain
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This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a…
— Arthur Machen
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Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.
— Joanne Harris
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Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the…
— Arthur Symons
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If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately…
— Arthur E Waite
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The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to…
— Learned Hand
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Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are…
— Anna Kingsford
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