The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic – nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
H. P. LOVECRAFTTo 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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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original – the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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The most merciful thing in the world, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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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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In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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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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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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