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I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide—the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality.

— H. P. Lovecraft

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

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)

The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious.

The Allowable Rhyme (1915)

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927)

Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.

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