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Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.

Algernon Blackwood

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Algernon Blackwood
Age: 81 †
Born: 1869
Born: January 1
Died: 1951
Died: January 1
Journalist
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Algernon Henry Blackwood
Ritual
Infinite
Soul
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The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
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I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
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But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.
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Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
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No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
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My imagination requires a judicious rein I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.
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No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.
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The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.
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It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
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Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.
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