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From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know; and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.

H. P. Lovecraft

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.
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Drama Element Greatness Play Reason Terrible Time Universe
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
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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Book Old Secret Wonderful
I am well-nigh resolv’d to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.
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Dreams Mindset Myself Writing
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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Decrease Happiness Human Important Minimal Value
I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
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Furniture Library Live Possession Sleep
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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Dreams Fake Poet Travel
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!
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Beautiful Instrument Man Pay Responsive World
From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know; and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.
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Conscious Doubt Experience Life Man Memories Wake Up
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
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
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Choice Expression Feeling Group People Religious Sanity Strong Togetherness
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
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
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
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
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Creation Deep Fear Illusion Nature Ourselves Strong
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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Business Dreams Interest Man Thinking

From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know; and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.

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From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know; and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.

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