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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
    “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
    “I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider
    tags: horror, lovecraft
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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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    Vincent Price
    “In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.”
    ― Vincent Price, I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
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    Bram Stoker
    “We learn from failure, not from success!”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    C.G. Jung
    “You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: action, service
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    C.G. Jung
    “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-love
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    C.G. Jung
    “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”
    ― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
    tags: darkness, inspiration, life, psychology, shadow, whole, wholeness, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: darkness, human-nature, moon
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.”
    ― mary shelley
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    Lord Byron
    “Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: laughter, medicine
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    Lord Byron
    “If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
    tags: companionship, loneliness, reading
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    Lord Byron
    “I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.”
    ― George Gorden Lord Byron
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    Lord Byron
    “For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
    tags: fiction, life, lord-byron, on-fiction, strange, truth
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    Lord Byron
    “Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure. ”
    ― George Gordon Byron
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: irreligion, organized-religion, religion
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: genius, imperfection, incompleteness, shudder, silence
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And I fell violently on my face.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Great Tales and Poems
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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