
The Secret Glory

All this I knew and yet my knowledge was ignorance,
Arthur Machen • The Secret Glory
it seems that we are forced to the conclusion that we do not altogether understand the management of the universe.
Arthur Machen • The Secret Glory
This, of course, is one of the aims—rather, the great aim—of the system: this fashioning of very diverse characters into one common form,
Arthur Machen • The Secret Glory
Horbury, the irritating influence of the Head's conversation and sherry apart, was by no means a bad fellow. He was for the moment savagely cruel, but then, most men are apt to be savagely cruel when they suffer from an inflamed liver and offensive superiors, more especially when there is an inferior, warranted defenceless, in their power.
Arthur Machen • The Secret Glory
But now I was in Paradise, for body and soul were molten in one fire and went up in one flame. The mortal and the immortal vines were made one. Through the joy of the body I possessed the joy of the spirit. And it was so strange to think that all this was through a woman—through a woman I had seen dozens of times and had thought nothing of, except
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If a man say that he loveth God whom he hath not seen, and love not his brother whom he hath seen! Let your light shine before men. Be sure that we shall never win Heaven by despising earth.
Arthur Machen • The Secret Glory
With Meyrick this mode of feeling had grown stronger by provocation; the more he was injured, the more he shrank from the thought of returning the injury.
Arthur Machen • The Secret Glory
Inadequacy of expression is merely a minor part of the great tragedy of humanity. Only an ass thinks that he has succeeded in uttering the perfect content of his thought without either excess or defect."
Arthur Machen • The Secret Glory
Crambe bis cocta;