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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

H. P. Lovecraft

The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Decision Factor Force Human Ideas Institution Ourselves Protection Ultimate
My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
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Boredom Interest List Nervous Save System
I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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Human Myself Proud Respect Species
I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous – that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn’t.
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Accident Essential Myself Nervous People Thinking
I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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Beautiful Realism Thinking
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
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Aesthetic Perfection Scarce Symbol Worship
Certain of Poe’s tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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Absolute Form Light Perfection Possession
The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.
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Culture Desire Honor Man Nation
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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Black Ignorance Live Ourselves Travel
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Horror Mistake Silence Solitude
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Human Passion Standard Universe World
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
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Appearance Chronicle Ingredient Race Terrorism
One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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Effect Important Vocabulary
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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Ancient Dreams Memories Mountain Ocean Ourselves Time
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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Dreams Fake Poet Travel
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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Hero Poem Rhyme Success

Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

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