"What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!"
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island, was an American writer who forever altered the landscape of horror fiction. Despite a life marked by personal struggles and financial hardship, Lovecraft created an intricate universe filled with cosmic horrors and ancient deities, encapsulated in his pioneering Cthulhu Mythos. His work, including classics such as "The Call of Cthulhu" and "At the Mountains of Madness," has influenced countless authors, filmmakers, and artists, solidifying his enduring legacy in popular culture.
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"Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men."
H. P. Lovecraft"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams."
H. P. Lovecraft"Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time."
H. P. Lovecraft"Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience."
H. P. Lovecraft"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
H. P. Lovecraft"For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students."
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"It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests."
H. P. Lovecraft"If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences."
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"I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect."
H. P. Lovecraft"Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world."
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"Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous."
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"Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent."
H. P. Lovecraft"But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean."
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