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For the unpure is merely negative; it has no existence; it is but the cramped expression of what is true, stammering its way brokenly over false boundaries that seek to limit and confine.

From The Damned by Blackwood, Algernon

And so, through this singular mood, I came a little nearer to understand the unpure thing that had stammered out into expression through my sister's talent.

From The Damned by Blackwood, Algernon