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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior ...more

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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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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be ...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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Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

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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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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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We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inhe...more

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I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all...more