“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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Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. After his father's institutionalization in 1893, he lived affluently until his family's wealth dissipated after the death of his grandfather. He then lived with his mother, in reduced financial security, until her institutionalization in 1919. He began to write essays for the United Amateur Press Association, and in 1913 wrote a critical letter to a pulp magazine that ultimately led to his involvement in pulp fiction. He became active in the speculative fiction community and was published in several pulp magazines. Lovecraft moved to New York City, marrying Sonia Greene in 1924, and later became the center of a wider group of authors known as the "Lovecraft Circle". They introduced him to Weird Tales, which would become his most prominent publisher. Lovecraft's time in New York took a toll on his mental state and financial conditions. He returned to Providence in 1926 and produced some of his most popular works, including *The Call of Cthulhu*, *At the Mountains of Madness*, *The Shadow over Innsmouth* and *The Shadow Out of Time*. He would remain active as a writer for 11 more years until his death from intestinal cancer at the age of 46. From Wikipedia.
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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 sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anyth...”
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“Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.”
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“Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.”
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“Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.”
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“One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.”
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“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
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“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!”
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“From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know; a...”
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“But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.”
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“There are not 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, we think but half-formed thoughts, an...”
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“I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.”
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“But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?”
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“All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.”
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“I do not think that any realism is beautiful.”
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“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.”
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“I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.”
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“Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.”
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