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H. P. Lovecraft

American Novelist

Born: Aug 20, 1890

Died: Mar 15, 1937

Any Life Man Me Will World

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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. H. P. Lovecraft

Fear Unknown Kind Strongest Emotion Mankind Oldest

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. H. P. Lovecraft

Freedom Cats Pride Men Beauty Cynical Coldness Philosophic Independent Unbroken Civilised Poetic Mentally Developed Individuality Qualities Self-Sufficiency Wonder Sensitive Pagan Dispassionate Reserved Dainty Enlightened

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse. H. P. Lovecraft

Life Strange Dark Will Thought Men Own Stars Tremble Worlds Our Minds Press Dimensions Hidden Moonstruck Only Glimpse Beyond Dead Globe Always May Impulse Afraid Children Which Sensitive Unholy Hereditary

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

World Joke Indeed Comic Mankind

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. 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. H. P. Lovecraft

Truth Religion Try Insist Young Consequences Backgrounds Would Followers True Merely Practical Were Quest Artificial Irrespective Conformity

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. H. P. Lovecraft

Nature Black Ocean White Silent Smooth Green Blue Grey

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. H. P. Lovecraft

Dog Master Own Philosophic Distinct Easily Tribute Compliment More Could Cat He Instinct Another His Friend Very Confidant Interesting Choose Who Companion Agreeable Wholly Chosen Found Whose

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H. P. Lovecraft

World Mind Correlate Merciful Most Contents Human Inability Human Mind Thing

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. H. P. Lovecraft

Respect Human Being Superior Every Ways Fact Vastly Conceive Readily Proud Am Very Human Being In Fact Dislike Many Beings Species

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

Silence Mistake Solitude Darkness Horror Inextricably Fancy Associated

Adulthood is hell. H. P. Lovecraft

Hell Adulthood

We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles. H. P. Lovecraft

Nature Man Will Long Beast Sleeps Beneath Slight Must Only Civilisation Remain Remains Brute He Lightly Principles Deal Genuine Ready Scientifically Dominant Same Realise Which Using Awake Element Ever Biological Preserve

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. H. P. Lovecraft

There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. H. P. Lovecraft

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

Me Black Abyss Delving Form Process Fascination Keenest

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. H. P. Lovecraft

You Dog Will Before Pants Eye Bored Somewhat Throw Cat He Stick Polite Same Bring Amusement

Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression. H. P. Lovecraft

Savage Great Will Long Down Every State Rule Plunging Object More Ardently Cast Previous Individual Argue Wished Because Denied Motive Just Repression After Anything Break Acquired Aside Then Inhibition Sufficiently Desired

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