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Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation. In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.

H. P. Lovecraft
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Do not call up any that you can not put down.

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Never Explain Anything

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Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity

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That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

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That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

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If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

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Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the totter…

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

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