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Heaven knows where I’ll end up – but it’s a safe bet that I’ll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

H. P. Lovecraft

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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Animal Black Magic Darkness Night
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Cosmic Joke Kind Man World
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
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
Horrors, I believe, should be original – the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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Believe Common Influence Legend Weakness
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
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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Atmosphere Greatness Human Mood
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
I could not write about ‘ordinary people’ because I am not in the least interested in them.
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Interest Myself People Writing
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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Emotion Fear Feeling Kind Man Old Strong Unknown
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
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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Childhood Fear Happiness Memories Sadness
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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Absent Greatness Horror Irony
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
Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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Better Chaos Creation Immense Life Relation Value
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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Care Description Essential Mindset Reading Selection

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