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“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu: With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss

“Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls

“I like coffee exceedingly...”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

“In town a man can live for a hundred years without noticing that he has long been dead and has rotten away.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata