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Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.
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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Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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incurable lover of the grotesque
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Though not a participant in the Business of life I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.
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My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.
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Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
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Blue, green, grey, white, or black smooth, ruffled, or mountainous that ocean is not silent.
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In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
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