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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

H. P. Lovecraft

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
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Aristotle Establishment Poetry Principle Pronounce
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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Childhood Fear Happiness Memories Sadness
There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
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Dreams Life Open Person Poison Vision Wonder Youth
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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Absent Greatness Horror Irony
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day’s end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Acceptance Discipline Easy Immortal Intellectual Mindset Removal Service
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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Children Philosophy Point Stick
The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.
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Cat Children Dog Lover Oneself Ordinary People Reality
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
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
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
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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Appearance Atheist Rational Theory
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
Adulthood is hell.
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Adult Hell One Liner
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
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
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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Pursue Revelation Science Truth

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