We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and … - Arthur Machen

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In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

Arthur Machen

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.

Dream, Moon, Nightmare, Proofs, Space, Stars

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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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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 things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.

Beauty, Eye, Glowing, Look, Looks, Mysteries

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 them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty.

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There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

Corners, Forgotten, Lost, Obscure, Strange

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?

Heaven, Hides, Man, Men, Say, Two

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