The Purple Cloud Quotes

“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so good.”
― M.P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud

“It was while I was seated in an easy-chair in the street the following evening, smoking, watching the combustion of this structure, that something was suddenly born in me, something out of Hell, and I smiled a smile that never man smiled. And I said: 'I will burn: I will return to London...”
― M.P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud

“It was, therefore, mainly by the random workings of winds and currents that this fragrant ship of death had been brought hither to me.
And this was the first direct intimation which I had that the Unseen Powers (whoever and whatever they may be), who through the history of the world had been so very, very careful to conceal their Hand from the eyes of men, hardly any longer intended to be at the pains to conceal their Hand from me.”
― M. P. Shiel (Author), The Purple Cloud