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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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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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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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
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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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Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.
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I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.
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I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
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No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.
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