"If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress."

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Source : Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1199, Delphi Classics

Arthur Machen

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“The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my way through and avoided having to be anxious! You can agonize over something for ages and plague yourself and those around you. It's much better to fight your way through as soon as it comes up.”
“I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.”
“There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.”
“Love Poem Ù€Ù€Ù€Ù€Ù€Ù€Ù€Ù€Ù€ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.”
“[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers.”
“I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.”

Source : Susan Vaught (2011). “Going Underground”, p.187, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.”
“Obviously, the United States' own founding principles are self-determination. And I think what the United States and our allies want to do is to enable the Syrian people to make that determination. You know, we've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and - and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed.”

Source : "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. April 9, 2017.

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