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Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
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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Blue, green, grey, white, or black smooth, ruffled, or mountainous that ocean is not silent.
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Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosis among the stars before men became fully aware that it had vanished from the earth!
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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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The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.
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And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.
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