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Arthur Machen Inspirational Quotes (10)

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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 be introduced.
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And it is utterly true that he who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in the places by the Gray's Inn Road will never find these secrets elsewhere.
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I dream in fire but work in clay.
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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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There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.
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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 conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
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silence is not weakness and decency is not pride
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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 the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.
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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 a man, is the other that hides in me?
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In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.
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