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H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937

Calm, lasting beauty comes only in a dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.

H. P. Lovecraft on beauty

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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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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Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
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