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21 " To be everywhere at once and to know everybody was, after all, but to slip the cables of the tiny, separate self, and experience the Whole. Hence the desire to be elsewhere and otherwise. Hence, too, the innate yearning to share experiences of all kinds with others. "
― Algernon Blackwood , The Promise of Air
22 " To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid. "
― Algernon Blackwood , The Complete John Silence Stories (Dover Horror Classics)
23 " No doubt there was much embroidery, and more perversion, exaggeration too, but the account evidently rested upon some basis of solid foundation for all that. Smoke and fire go together always. "
― Algernon Blackwood , Four Weird Tales
24 " It is never difficult to credit strangers with the qualities and knowledge that oneself craves for, and no doubt Henriot’s active fancy went busily to work. "
25 " The reflection that this sudden intimacy was unnatural, he rejected, for many conversations, for many conversations were really gathered into one. "
26 " The studies that had fascinated his mind in earlier youth returned with the power that had subdued his mind in boyhood. "
27 " Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.("The Man Whom The Trees Loved") "
― Algernon Blackwood , Tales Of The Uncanny And Supernatural
28 " Te necesito. A tí, querida alma de mi pasado sombrío -se apretó junto a él tanto que su aliento le rozaba los ojos, y su voz cantó literalmente al decir -: Te tengo, porque tu me amas y estás por completo a mi merced. "
― Algernon Blackwood , Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories
29 " They talked trees from morning till night. It stirred in her the old subconscious trail of dread, a trail that led ever into the darkness of big woods; and such feelings, as her early evangelical training taught her, were temptings. To regard them in any other way was to play with danger. "
― Algernon Blackwood
30 " It is a common trick of Nature – and a profoundlysignificant one – that, just when despair is deepest,she waves a wand before the weary eyes and doesher best to waken an impossible hope. "
― Algernon Blackwood , The Listener And Other Stories
31 " ...savage and formidable Potencies lurking behind the souls of men, not evil perhaps in themselves, yet instinctively hostile to humanity as it exists. "
― Algernon Blackwood , The Wendigo
32 " The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray. "
33 " No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the leastinviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon thewalls of memory. "
― Algernon Blackwood , A Prisoner in Fairyland
34 " Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd. "
35 " 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. "
― Algernon Blackwood , The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
36 " The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or rejection. "
― Algernon Blackwood , The Willows
37 " I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed "
38 " No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him. "
39 " Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind. "
40 " Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable conviction that there is something radically amiss with their being: that they are evil. Willy nilly, they seem to communicate an atmosphere of secret and wicked thoughts which makes those in their immediate neighbourhood shrink from them as from a thing diseased. "