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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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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