Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

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• H. P. Lovecraft:

  There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not;

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his tho

• H. P. Lovecraft:

  I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat