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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

H. P. Lovecraft

One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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Effect Important Vocabulary
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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Childhood Fear Happiness Memories Sadness
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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Haunt Horror Search Stage
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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Black Fascination Form
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Accomplishment Emotional Mindset Play Relieve
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species – if separate species we be – for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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Horror Oppression Science Ultimate World
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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Constitution Environment Limitation Man Mental Respect Training
All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.
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Beginning Goodness Guide Learning Literature
In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
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Achievement Atmosphere Care Myself Place Story Weird Writing
We should perceive that man’s period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.
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Change Condition History Man Mental Physical
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
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Artificial Follow Practical Religion True
I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider’d but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg’d in with infrequency and Discrimination.
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Accomplishment Literature Myself Writing
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
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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Dare Myself Place Soul
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
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Demon Hide Known Life Ourselves Secret Truth
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

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