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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.

— H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

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Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

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