Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

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• H. P. Lovecraft:

  The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial confo

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelat

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the cor

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is f

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined int

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, s

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not mean