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Category: Robert Aickman

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

atheism, bliss, convention, despair, ignorance, insanity, normalcy, sanity

Haven’t you noticed by this time that everyone’s lives are full of things you can’t understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.

life, truth, understanding

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

ghost-stories, horror, strange-stories

No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.

coffee, darkness, drinks, into-the-wood

We are most of us two people, your Highness. There is something lacking in the man who is one thing only, and so, as he believes, at peace with the world and with himself.

duality, inner-peace

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.

darkness, women

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

Enchanted islands are hard to understand,’ he said. ‘I’ve always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.

enchantment, islands, magic, reality

Enchanted islands are hard to understand,’ he said. ‘I’ve always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.

enchantment, islands, magic, reality