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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “Ordinary sounds remain ordinary only so long as one is not listening to them; under the influence of intense listening they become unusual, portentous, and therefore extraordinary.”

51. “Ordinary sounds remain ordinary only so long as one is not listening to them; under the influence of intense listening they become unusual, portentous, and therefore extraordinary.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “By which I mean that he saw in commonplace events the movement of greater tides than others saw.”

52. “By which I mean that he saw in commonplace events the movement of greater tides than others saw.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “We have tried all things, and found all wanting.”

53. “We have tried all things, and found all wanting.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “He was trying to make up for lost time and money in a way that showed conclusively he did not understand the value of either.”

54. “He was trying to make up for lost time and money in a way that showed conclusively he did not understand the value of either.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “Love is known only by feeling it,” she said, her voice deepening a little. “Behind the form you feel the person loved. The process is an evocation, pure and simple. An arduous ceremonial, involving worship and devotional preparation, is the means. It is a difficult ritual – the only one acknowledged by the world as still effectual. Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.”

55. “Love is known only by feeling it,” she said, her voice deepening a little. “Behind the form you feel the person loved. The process is an evocation, pure and simple. An arduous ceremonial, involving worship and devotional preparation, is the means. It is a difficult ritual – the only one acknowledged by the world as still effectual. Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “We must keep our minds quiet-it’s our minds they feel.”

56. “We must keep our minds quiet-it’s our minds they feel.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “Life, using matter to express itself in bodily shape, first traces a geometrical pattern. From the lowest form in crystals, upwards to more complicated patterns in the higher organisations – there is always first this geometrical pattern as skeleton.”

57. “Life, using matter to express itself in bodily shape, first traces a geometrical pattern. From the lowest form in crystals, upwards to more complicated patterns in the higher organisations – there is always first this geometrical pattern as skeleton.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “It is the same with all the emotions,” he said. “The experiences of others never give a complete account. Until a man has deliberately turned and faced for himself the fiends that chase him down the years, he has no knowledge of what they really are, or of what they can do.”

58. “It is the same with all the emotions,” he said. “The experiences of others never give a complete account. Until a man has deliberately turned and faced for himself the fiends that chase him down the years, he has no knowledge of what they really are, or of what they can do.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “Smoke and fire go together always.”

59. “Smoke and fire go together always.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “For one single second I understood clearly that the past and the future exist actually side by side in one immense Present; that it was I who moved to and fro among shifting, protean appearances.”

60. “For one single second I understood clearly that the past and the future exist actually side by side in one immense Present; that it was I who moved to and fro among shifting, protean appearances.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “Do not menion them more than you help. Do not refer to them by name. To name is to reveal; it is the inevitable clue, and our only hope lies in ignoring them, in order that they may ignore us.”

61. “Do not menion them more than you help. Do not refer to them by name. To name is to reveal; it is the inevitable clue, and our only hope lies in ignoring them, in order that they may ignore us.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “All his life he had realised that his senses brought to him merely a more or less interesting set of sham appearances; that space, as men measure it, was utterly misleading; that time, as the clock ticked it in a succession of minutes, was arbitrary nonsense; and, in fact, that all his sensory perceptions were but a clumsy representation of real things behind the curtain – things he was for ever trying to get at, and that sometimes he actually did get at.”

62. “All his life he had realised that his senses brought to him merely a more or less interesting set of sham appearances; that space, as men measure it, was utterly misleading; that time, as the clock ticked it in a succession of minutes, was arbitrary nonsense; and, in fact, that all his sensory perceptions were but a clumsy representation of real things behind the curtain – things he was for ever trying to get at, and that sometimes he actually did get at.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “For according to his beliefs there was no Chance, and could be no ultimate shirking, and to avoid a problem was merely to waste time and lose opportunities for development.”

63. “For according to his beliefs there was no Chance, and could be no ultimate shirking, and to avoid a problem was merely to waste time and lose opportunities for development.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “He disliked them, not because they were his fellow-countrymen, but because they were noisy and obtrusive, obliterating with their big limbs and tweed clothing all the quieter tints of the day that brought him satisfaction and enabled him to melt into insignificance and forget that he was anybody.”

64. “He disliked them, not because they were his fellow-countrymen, but because they were noisy and obtrusive, obliterating with their big limbs and tweed clothing all the quieter tints of the day that brought him satisfaction and enabled him to melt into insignificance and forget that he was anybody.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “For only to the few whose inner senses have been quickened, perchance by some strange suffering in the depths, or by a natural temperament bequeathed from a remote past, comes the knowledge, not too welcome, that this greater world lies ever at their elbow, and that any moment a chance combination of moods and forces may invite them to cross the shifting frontier.”

65. “For only to the few whose inner senses have been quickened, perchance by some strange suffering in the depths, or by a natural temperament bequeathed from a remote past, comes the knowledge, not too welcome, that this greater world lies ever at their elbow, and that any moment a chance combination of moods and forces may invite them to cross the shifting frontier.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “I was conscious only of a sort of enveloping sensation of icy fear that plucked the nerves out of their fleshly covering, twisted them this way and that, and replaced them quivering.”

66. “I was conscious only of a sort of enveloping sensation of icy fear that plucked the nerves out of their fleshly covering, twisted them this way and that, and replaced them quivering.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “Punk had in him still the instincts of his dying race; his taciturn silence and his endurance survived; also his superstition.”

67. “Punk had in him still the instincts of his dying race; his taciturn silence and his endurance survived; also his superstition.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “Other life pulsed about them – and was gone.”

68. “Other life pulsed about them – and was gone.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “The whole experience whose verge we touched was unknown to humanity at all. It was a new order of experience, and in the true sense of the word unearthly.”

69. “The whole experience whose verge we touched was unknown to humanity at all. It was a new order of experience, and in the true sense of the word unearthly.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “Of course, he smothered it in words – odd words, too – melodramatic, poetic, out-of-the-way words that lie just on the edge of frenzy.”

70. “Of course, he smothered it in words – odd words, too – melodramatic, poetic, out-of-the-way words that lie just on the edge of frenzy.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “He loved the gigantic peace the Desert gave him. The world was forgotten there; and not the world merely, but all memory of it. Everything faded out. The soul turned inwards upon itself.”

71. “He loved the gigantic peace the Desert gave him. The world was forgotten there; and not the world merely, but all memory of it. Everything faded out. The soul turned inwards upon itself.”

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Algernon Blackwood Quote: “She drew him softly downwards to his knees. He sank; he yielded utterly; he obeyed. Her weight was upon him, smothering, delicious. The snow was to his waist... She kissed him softly on the lips, the eyes, all over his face. And then she spoke his name in that voice of love and wonder, the voice that held the accent of two others – both taken over long ago by Death – the voice of his mother, and of the woman he had loved.”

72. “She drew him softly downwards to his knees. He sank; he yielded utterly; he obeyed. Her weight was upon him, smothering, delicious. The snow was to his waist... She kissed him softly on the lips, the eyes, all over his face. And then she spoke his name in that voice of love and wonder, the voice that held the accent of two others – both taken over long ago by Death – the voice of his mother, and of the woman he had loved.”

— Algernon Blackwood

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