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“those who suffer intolerably learn to hide their afflictions, both necessary and unnecessary, because the world does not run on pain time but on happy time, whether or not that happiness is honestly felt or a mask for the blackest despondency.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

“I've been at some pains to tell you about myself because among other reasons I think we should know who our enemies are. I've known people to spend their lives nursing a hatred of phantoms and they were not happy people.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“We are only chance visitants to this jungle of blind mutations. The natural world existed when we did not, and it will continue to exist long after we are gone. The supernatural crept into life only when the door of consciousness was opened in our heads. The moment we stepped through that door, we walked out on nature. Say what we will about it and deny it till we die--we are blighted by our knowing what is too much to know and too secret to tell one another if we are to stride along our streets, work at our jobs, and sleep in our beds. It is the knowledge of a race of beings that is only passing through this shoddy cosmos.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

“They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers.”
― C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections