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When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

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It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleep...more

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The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachm...more

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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations ca...more

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Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fa...more

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

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There is in certain ancient things a traceOf some dim essence --More than form or weight;A tenuous aether, indeterminate,Yet linked with all the laws ...more

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Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longing...more

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I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost.

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Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

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You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul to sense and seek for me within the repellent form ...more

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

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Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives...more

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Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.