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It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.
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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You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier have I not shown you worlds that no other living men have seen?
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!
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incurable lover of the grotesque
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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. To trace the remote in the immediate the eternal in the ephemeral the past in the present the infinite in the finite these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.
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I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
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Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.
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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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The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.
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Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
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The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.
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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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In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. The chance's of theism's truth being to my mind so microscopically small, I would be a pedant and a hypocrite to call myself anything else.
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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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Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.
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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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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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Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you.
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
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