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From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
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In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.
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Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.
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The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.
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I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.
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When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.
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Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me...
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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.
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It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...
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I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
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In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!
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Nyarlathotep... the crawling chaos... I am the last... I will tell the audient void....
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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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Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.
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So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.
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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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Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
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Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal
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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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Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.
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West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.
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Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.
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As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.
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The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
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Born:
August 20, 1890
Died:
March 15, 1937
(aged 46)
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