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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
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 tottering cities of men.
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky.
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
When Professor Angell became convinced that the sculptor was indeed ignorant of any cult or system of cryptic lore, he besieged his visitor with demands for future reports of dreams.
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
These Great Old Ones, Castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. They had shape — for did not this star-fashioned image prove it? — but that shape was not made of matter.
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn." ... "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
No recognised school of sculpture had animated this terrible object, yet centuries and even thousands of years seemed recorded in its dim and greenish surface of unplaceable stone.
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
No book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless Chinamen said that there were double meanings in the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred which the initiated might read as they chose, especially the much-discussed couplet
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)