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.
H. P. LOVECRAFTChildren, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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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.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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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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We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
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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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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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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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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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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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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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