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“It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.”
“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.”
“Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.”
“God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.”
“It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged.”
“The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain.”
“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts like a Chinese nest of boxes oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front in our ancestors, back and back until...”
“It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, changing and yet changeless, thing it was. And yet mystery and loveliness alike were really only ap...”
“We are *all* we are, and all in a sense we care to dream we are. And for that matter, anything outlandish, bizarre, is a godsend in this rather stodgy life. It is after all just what the old boy sa...”
“Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched ...”
“That's why I've just gone on collecting this particular kind of stuff what you might call riff-raff. There's not a book here, Lawford, that hasn't at least a glimmer of the real thing in it just...”
“Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of before without being burned alive for it.”
“Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.”
“I believe in the devil, in the Powers of Darkness, Lawford, as firmly as I believe he and they are powerless in the long run. They what shall we say? - have surrendered their intrinsicality. You ...”
“In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.”
“Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn, scrutinize the little intent company sitting over his story around the lamp at the further end o...”
