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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

H. P. Lovecraft

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
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
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
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
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
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
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
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Creation Deep Fear Illusion Nature Ourselves Strong
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
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
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
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
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Horror Mistake Silence Solitude
Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or ‘outsideness’ without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
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Connection Emotion Fear Horror Lay Natural Unknown
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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Atmosphere Greatness Human Mood
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
We should perceive that man’s period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.
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Change Condition History Man Mental Physical

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