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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

H. P. Lovecraft

One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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Awesome Impressive Production Terrible
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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Children Philosophy Point Stick
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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Haunt Horror Search Stage
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
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
A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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Dog Exception Force Leaving Pity Sleep
Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.
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Grace Independent Philology Research Word
I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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Beautiful Realism Thinking
I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Author Competition Illusion Serious Status
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
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
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Cosmic Joke Kind Man World
The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere ‘assonance’ rather than that of actual rhyme.
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Agreement Deserve Early Name
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
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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Demand Enthusiasm Fear Myself Work
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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End Journey Sing

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