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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.: H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.: H.P. Lovecraft
You have dreamed too well, O wise archdreamer, for you have drawn dream's gods away from the world of all men's vision to that which is wholly yours,...: H.P. Lovecraft
...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and (there is) no cause to value one above the other.": H.P. Lovecraft

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)
...I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman; and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency, and Discrimination.: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), written in 1925
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), The White Ship
It is the greatest mercy that humankind cannot connect up all its diverse bits of information, but a day is coming when we will and the question is whether we will embrace that light, or run from it into the sheltering shadows of a new dark age.: H.P. Lovecraft, Quoted by Alan Moore in a discussion about fundamentalism and nationalism.

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