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But here, in this place of eternal bareness and solitude, it seemed that life could never have been. The stark, eroded stones were things that might have been reared by the toil of the dead, to house the monstrous ghouls and demons of primal desolation.

— Clark Ashton Smith

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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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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.

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