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From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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Rhode Island
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
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Ward Phillips
HP Lovecraft
Richard Raleigh
Edgar Softly
Augustus T. Swift
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Albert Frederick Willie
Humphrey Littlewit
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I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.
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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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Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
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There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.
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