The Maracot Deep Quotes

“It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Maracot Deep

“Whatever I may do in life, it is truly Mona who will do it, for that life has been a gift from her.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Maracot Deep

“It was only at that moment that I knew that I loved my gentle companion, loved her with all my heart and soul, loved her with a love which was rooted deep down and was part of my very self. How strange a thing is a love like that! How impossible to analyse! It was not for her face or figure, lovely as they were. It was not for her voice, though it was more musical than any I have known, nor was it for mental communion, since I could only learn her thoughts from her sensitive ever-changing face. No, it was something at the back of her dark dreamy eyes, something in the very depths of her soul as of mine which made us mates for all time.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Maracot Deep

“The latter were tall men, fair, with blue eyes and powerful bodies. The others were, as already described, dark and almost negroid, with squat, broad frames. We could not inquire into the mystery at that moment, but the impression was left upon my mind that the one race represented the hereditary slaves of the other,”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Maracot Deep

“Maracot shook his head to show that we were nonplussed. So was the old man for a moment. An idea struck him, however, and he pointed to his own figure. Then he turned towards the screen, fixed his eyes upon it, and seemed to concentrate his attention. In an instant a reflection of himself appeared on the screen before us. Then he pointed to us, and a moment later our own little group took the place of his image. It was not particularly like us. Scanlan looked like a comic Chinaman and Maracot like a decayed corpse, but it was clearly meant to be ourselves as we appeared in the eyes of the operator. ‘It’s a reflection of thought,’ I cried. ‘Exactly,’ said Maracot. ‘This is certainly a most marvellous invention, and yet it is but a combination of such telepathy and television as we dimly comprehend upon earth.’ ‘I never thought I’d live to see myself on the movies, if that cheese- faced Chink is really meant for me,’ said Scanlan.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Maracot Deep

“They do find a sufficient increase of pressure to influence what is perhaps the most sensitive organ of the body, the interior of the ear.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Maracot Deep