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The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.

H. P. Lovecraft

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
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
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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Demand Enthusiasm Fear Myself Work
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
Man’s respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
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Constitution Environment Limitation Man Mental Respect Training
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
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!
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Beautiful Instrument Man Pay Responsive World
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
Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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Character Fantasy Feeling Reading Ruin Serious Style Wonder
Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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Discover Practice Science Truth Value
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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Dreams Fake Poet Travel
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
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
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Human Passion Standard Universe World
The most merciful thing in the world, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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Content Human Mercy Mindset World
It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared – as it always should be.
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Care Miss Preparation Story

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