The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

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Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

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That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

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If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

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Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

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It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

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