Quotes With The Most

|| 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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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

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

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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

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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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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

(Lovecraft sounds like my kind of guy, lol.)

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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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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect

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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

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It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

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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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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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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

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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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Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement.

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