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It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

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If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

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From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

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That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

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Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

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In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative.

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Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight.

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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

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My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

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Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

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All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me.

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Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

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incurable lover of the grotesque

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We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

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

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The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'. Only egotism exists.

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Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.

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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

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From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

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