The London Adventure or The Art of Wandering Quotes

“Strangeness which is the essence of beauty is the essence of truth, and the essence of the world. I have often felt that; when the ascent of a long hill brought me to the summit of an undiscovered height in London; and I looked down on a new land.”
― Arthur Machen, The London Adventure or The Art of Wandering

“the most amazing things are latent in the commonest, most everyday, ordinary circumstances; and, furthermore, that these amazing things are the only realities in the matter, and the only realities that do matter.”
― Arthur Machen, The London Adventure or The Art of Wandering