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It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

~Arthur Machen

Topics: Any Direction Dreams Greater Interpretation Many May Means Method Moves Much Nonsense Opposite Opposite Direction Said Sure True

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Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

~Arthur Machen

Topics: Branch Every Final Human Knowledge Mystery Principles Source Up Vanishes

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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.

~Arthur Machen

Topics: Attempting Better Contemptible Department Exquisite Fail He Succeed Than Things Thought Utterly

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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 joke and has become a very serious science.

~Arthur Machen

Topics: Aware Become Business Dreams Everybody Joke Now Recent Recent Years Science Serious Silly Suppose Very Years

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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.

~Arthur Machen

Topics: Before Boots Brown Committed Conjecture Dreams Dress Evening Face Forgetfulness He Hid His Man Often Red Safe Sheer Sin Sun Tie Which Wore

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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.

~Arthur Machen

Topics: Consequence Held Imply Importance Introduced Introduction Presence Something

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Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

~Arthur Machen

Topics: About Accepted Am Ancient Appeared Belong Classics Evening Great Here Introducing Masterpieces Months My Own News Own Short Small Story Ten Things Which World I Am

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Author

Born: March 3rd, 1863

Died: December 15th, 1947

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