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

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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must...more

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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

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As we drew nearer the green shore the bearded man told me of that land, the Land of Zar, where dwell all the dreams and thoughts of beauty that come t...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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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 15...more

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The cloudless day is richer at its close;A golden glory settles on the lea;Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool reposeTo mellowing landscape, and to ca...more

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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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I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

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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 dreamin...more

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

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In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

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

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There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream...more

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For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...