H. P. Lovecraft quote: "It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such an one more agreeable and interesting."

We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master&...
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a p...
H. P. LOVECRAFT

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant...
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Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, si...
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its cont...
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even...
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon...
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator...
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that i...
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In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, prac...
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter t...
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Adulthood is hell.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in th...
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such reall...
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The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary househo...
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which ...
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always acc...
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We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physica...
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fe...
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We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after m...
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It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead...
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Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will ...
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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and...
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways....
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The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any t...
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There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another ex...
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Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, a...
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The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certai...
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined inte...
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude...
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless ba...
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then,...
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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the asser...
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the yo...
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by ...
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influ...
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial confor...
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Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in ...
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We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisat...
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystalli...
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich...
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Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same be...
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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which...
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum tot...
H. P. LOVECRAFT

The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its con...
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions a...
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelati...
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ...
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...
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Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment....
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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the corr...
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-...
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of vari...
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. B...
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All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must neve...
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of na...
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From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed s...
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of...
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with stranger aeons, even Death may die.
H. P LOVECRAFT

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its cont...
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The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the ...
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All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those bo...
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If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in o...
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It is uncommon to fire all six shots of a revolver with great suddenness when one would probably be ...
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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.
H. P LOVECRAFT

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant...
H. P LOVECRAFT

I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serio...
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All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no val...
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The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mi...
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward kee...
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What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive ...
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Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them v...
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The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by convent...
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant...
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe a...
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I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think t...
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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a co...
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Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which e...
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discov...
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture an...
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic l...
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow.
P. H. SOLOMON

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.
H. P. BLAVATSKY

The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more...
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.
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Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could....
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It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at a...
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If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hi...
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A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present;...
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...
H.P. LOVECRAFT

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
H.P. LOVECRAFT

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...
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We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by sugge...
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From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
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On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly ...
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Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
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Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same be...
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Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; th...
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Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changele...
H.P. LOVECRAFT

Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demon...
H.P. LOVECRAFT

Success is a relative thing―and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octa...
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I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT

Το μεγαλύτερο ευτύχημα στον κόσμο είναι η αδυναμία του...
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This place had once been the seat of an evil older than mankind and wider than the known universe.
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Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told the...
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He used to make shuddering conjectures about the possible actions of a headless physician with the p...
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we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
H.P. LOVECRAFT

All the terror I had dimly felt before rushed upon me actively and vividly, and I knew that I loathe...
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The more he withdrew from the world about him, the more wonderful became his dreams; and it would ha...
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I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible. T...
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I s’pose you know—though I can see you’re a Westerner by your talk—what a lot our New Englan...
H.P. LOVECRAFT

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

A sickened, sensitive shadow writhing in hands that are not hands, and whirled blindly past ghastly ...
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A mountain walked or stumbled.
H.P. LOVECRAFT

Žijeme naše životy na malém ostrůvku zaslepenosti, bez povědomí o temných oceánech nekoneč...
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through th...
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In youth he had felt the hidden beauty and ecstasy of things, and had been a poet; but poverty and s...
H.P. LOVECRAFT

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator...
H.P. LOVECRAFT

In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming
H.P. LOVECRAFT

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the ev...
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The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking ...
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Quite alone both as a novel and as a piece of terror-literature stands the famous Wuthering Heights ...
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The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the read...
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fe...
H.P. LOVECRAFT

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
H.P. LOVECRAFT

I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they...
H.P. LOVECRAFT

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulh...
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