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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

H. P. Lovecraft

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
One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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Awesome Impressive Production Terrible
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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Black Fascination Form
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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Children Philosophy Point Stick
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
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Course Fiction Formal Story Writing
All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.
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Beginning Goodness Guide Learning Literature
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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Absent Greatness Horror Irony
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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Haunt Horror Search Stage
Certain of Poe’s tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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Absolute Form Light Perfection Possession
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
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
Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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Education Experience Genuine Imagination Potential
The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.
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Drama Element Greatness Play Reason Terrible Time Universe
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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Dreams Fake Poet Travel
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

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