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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.

H. P. Lovecraft

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
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
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
I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider’d but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg’d in with infrequency and Discrimination.
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Accomplishment Literature Myself Writing
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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Children Philosophy Point Stick
All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.
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Cosmos Emotion Fundamental
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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Black Fascination Form
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
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
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
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Horror Mistake Silence Solitude
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
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Aesthetic Perfection Scarce Symbol Worship
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
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Appearance Capacity Degree Demand Imagination Life Reading
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Decision Factor Force Human Ideas Institution Ourselves Protection Ultimate
I could not write about ‘ordinary people’ because I am not in the least interested in them.
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Interest Myself People Writing
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

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