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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.

H. P. Lovecraft

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
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Artificial Follow Practical Religion True
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
Heaven knows where I’ll end up – but it’s a safe bet that I’ll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
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Care Heaven Known Myself Safety Top
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
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Choice Expression Feeling Group People Religious Sanity Strong Togetherness
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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Haunt Horror Search Stage
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
The ‘punch’ of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law – an imaginative escape from palling reality – hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical ‘heroes.’
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Escape Phenomena Reality Story Tale Transcendence Weird
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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Childhood Fear Happiness Memories Sadness
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
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
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
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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Care Description Essential Mindset Reading Selection
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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Black Fascination Form
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.
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Culture Desire Honor Man Nation
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
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

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