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All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.

— Clark Ashton Smith The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith (1979)

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Lunatics with a speculative bent can sometimes stumble overly close to certain guarded cosmic secrets.

Schizoid Creator (1953)

To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.

The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith (1979)

Psychoanalysis and dianetics are, on the face of it, both absurd. People are what they are because of causes that go infinitely farther back than infancy of the mother's womb.

The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith (1979)

Stern and white as a tomb, older than the memory of the dead, and built by men or devils beyond the recording of myth, is the mansion in which we dwell.

The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith (1931)

Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams;
I crown me with the million-colored sun
Of secret worlds incredible, and take
Their trailing skies for vestment when I soar,
Throned on the mounting zenith, and illume
The spaceward-flown horizons infinite.

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