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“There was a glow in the sky as if great furnace doors were opened.”
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“But, after all, from all this there does result this one moral, which may be regarded as more especially addressed to us writing persons—and our readers. And that is ; that the world, the sum of things of which we are cognisant, is infinitely queer, that even in the rind or surface of it the strangest essences are lurking, that tremendous beauties, amazing oddities are everywhere present, wearing very often, to use the Wardrobe Master’s phrase, Disguise Cloaks of the most commonplace pattern.”
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“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.”
― The Empty House, and Other Ghost Stories
― The Empty House, and Other Ghost Stories
“fear . . . I think that death from fear, or madness from fear, must sum up in a second of time the total of all the most awful sensations it is possible for a man to know.”
― THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
― THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
“It is children who possess the "kingdom of heaven," to them are vouchsafed glimpses of that paradise which is the true home of man, and so it is that the boy with literature in his blood naturally makes his first efforts in the region of poetry, which is the heart and core of all literature.”
― Far Off Things
― Far Off Things
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