“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
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“The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.”
― Selected Letters III: 1929-1931
― Selected Letters III: 1929-1931
“All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.”
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“It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”
― Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany
― Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany
“The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.”
― The Dunwich Horror and Others
― The Dunwich Horror and Others
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