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“Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.”

Book:Selected Letters 1934-1937

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Selected Letters 1934-1937

This book compiles a selection of letters exchanged during the specified period, offering insights into the personal and professional lives of the correspondents. more

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H. P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft was an American horror fiction writer known for his unique cosmic horror style and Gothic narrative. His works often explore the insignificance of humans in the face of the unknown and omnipotent forces, profoundly influencing horror literature in the second half of the 20th century. more

“When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.”

Writing Trying Kind Doe I Can Reason Values Interest Natural My Own Fiction Drama Weakness Mediums Endowment Slender Confessing Natural Phenomena

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.”

Reality Acceptable Phases Absurdity Paganism Anomalies

Book:Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

“The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.”

Bigs Silence Too Much Tree Grew Healthy England Woods Alleys Trunks New England

Book:The Classic Horror Stories

Source: The Classic Horror Stories

“Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50 -- but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers.”

Mind Seems Dog Cat Cat And Dog Feline Zoologist

Book:Selected Letters 1934-1937

Source: Selected Letters 1934-1937

“Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.”

People Wells Would Be Water Easier Spring Stones Drinking Dry Thirsty Flowing Water

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.”

Men Certain Environment Limits Training Constitution Vary

Book:H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

Source: H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

“Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.”

World Kind Evil Danger Possibility Uncertainty Peril Unknown Worlds

Book:H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_

Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_

“I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logick. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities.”

Should Three Interest Groups Mines Strange Taste Logic Accounts Ancient Fantastic Combination Permanent Odd Abstract Strain Parallels Eccentricity

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

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