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Blue, green, grey, white, or black smooth, ruffled, or mountainous that ocean is not silent.
H. P. Lovecraft
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H. P. Lovecraft
Age: 46 †
Born: 1890
Born: August 20
Died: 1937
Died: March 15
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft
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That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.
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Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.
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I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.
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I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes.
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Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth.
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The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.
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Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.
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What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
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