Arthur Machen
Writer
1863-03-03 – 1947-12-15
Welsh author and mystic known for supernatural and weird fiction, including The Great God Pan. His work significantly influenced 20th-century horror and speculative literature. He died in 1947.
Books by Arthur Machen
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The Great God Pan
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The Hill of Dreams
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The Terror
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Quotes by Arthur Machen
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silence is not weakness and decency is not pride
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We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.
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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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Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the mail-coach; more truly I could announce my discovery that delight could be contained in small octavos and small type, in a bookshelf three feet long.
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Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the mail-coach; more truly I could announce my discovery that delight could be contained in small octavos and small type, in a bookshelf three feet long.
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We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.
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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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Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
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