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The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
Science of to-day — the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow — the superstition of to-day.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
Venus de Milo.
To a child she is ugly.
When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
Scientists who have thought that they were seeking Truth, but who were trying to find out astronomic, or chemic, or biologic truths. But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete--By Truth I mean the Universal.
The Book of The Damned (1919)
Would we if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relations with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation? I think we're property"
The Book of The Damned (1919)