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The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.
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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Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
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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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It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
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From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
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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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Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.
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Life is a hideous thing.
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As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.
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Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms.
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Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call happiness, if we be but able to entertain them.
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Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal
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