Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
From H. P. Lovecraft
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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.
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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