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“It makes me think. Maybe the only meaning to life is that which we get from each other.”
― The Flintstones, Vol. 1
― The Flintstones, Vol. 1
“Every day it will be the same thing: at dusk I begin to feel melancholy and pensive.”
― The Complete Stories
― The Complete Stories
“West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.”
― The Colour Out of Space and others
― The Colour Out of Space and others
“If we are able to convey ‘meaning’ to things and to actions, we may dominate part of the obscure world of ignorance. When we try to give sense to our life, we can come to ‘awareness’ and fill some of the numerous black holes of witlessness in our thinking. We may, then, defy and dam the existential void, down the stretch. ("Not without my shadow")”
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“What's going on in our world today is not something we can run away from. Therefore the calmest place is the eye of the storm. (...)
Chaos may be swirling all around us but if we stay in the center, obviously also metaphorically the centre of our own Being, that's where we're going to be able to handle everything that's going on, no matter how chaotic it gets. (...)
In the eye of the storm we're not tossed about by what we see.”
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Chaos may be swirling all around us but if we stay in the center, obviously also metaphorically the centre of our own Being, that's where we're going to be able to handle everything that's going on, no matter how chaotic it gets. (...)
In the eye of the storm we're not tossed about by what we see.”
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