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    Francesco Petrarca
    “How do you know, poor fool? Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence'; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.”
    ― Francesco Petrarch, Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “I love treason but hate a traitor.”
    ― Julius Caesar
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “Without training, they lacked knowledge.
    Without knowledge, they lacked confidence.
    Without confidence, they lacked victory.”
    ― Julius Caesar
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    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, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    tags: fear-of-unknown
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
    ― Howard Phillips Lovecraft
    tags: dance, dancing, life
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    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
    tags: cthulhu
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)”
    ― Julius Caesar
    tags: conqueror, imperialism, rome, war
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    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
    tags: death
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Never Explain Anything”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep
    tags: horror
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: future, gate, gates, guardian, key, past, present, yog-sothoth
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep
    tags: horror
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon et autres nouvelles de terreur
    tags: cthulhu, horror, lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
    ― H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
    tags: dread
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be.
    Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: god, mankind, organized-religion, religion
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    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
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Being crazy isn't enough.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: seuss
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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