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The Hill of Dreams

The Hill of Dreams
Arthur Machen Original title The hill of dreams (British English, 1907)

The Hill of Dreams is a semi-autobiographical novel by the Welsh writer Arthur Machen.

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“It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.”

Arthur Machen book The Hill of Dreams

The Hill of Dreams (London: Martin Secker, [1907] 1923) p. 154

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“Language, he understood, was chiefly important for the beauty of its sounds, by its possession of words resonant, glorious to the ear, by its capacity, when- exquisitely arranged, of suggesting wonderful and indefinable impressions, perhaps more ravishing and farther removed from the domain of strict thought than the impressions excited by music itself.”

Arthur Machen book The Hill of Dreams

The Hill of Dreams (London: Martin Secker, [1907] 1923) p. 126

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