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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!

H. P. Lovecraft

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
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Chaos Color Different Inspirational Ocean Silence
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Cosmic Joke Kind Man World
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
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Horror Mistake Silence Solitude
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
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
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Creation Ideal Myself Taste World
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
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
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
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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Haunt Horror Search Stage
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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Black Fascination Form
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
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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Ancient Dreams Memories Mountain Ocean Ourselves Time
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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Demand Enthusiasm Fear Myself Work
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

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