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21 " we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. "
― H.P. Lovecraft , The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
22 " He used to make shuddering conjectures about the possible actions of a headless physician with the power of reanimating the dead. "
23 " the myths were of a well-known pattern common to most of mankind and determined by early phases of imaginative experience which always produced the same type of delusion. "
24 " abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear. "
25 " Το μεγαλύτερο ευτύχημα στον κόσμο είναι η αδυναμία του μυαλού να συσχετίσει όλα τα περιεχόμενά του. "
26 " Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities. "
27 " 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 deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.3 "
28 " saw listless-looking people working in barren gardens or digging clams on the fishy-smelling beach below, and groups of dirty, simian-visaged children playing around weed-grown doorsteps. Somehow "
29 " I did not like the way he looked at healthy living bodies "
30 " Kuranes was not modern, and did not think like others who wrote. Whilst they strove to strip from life its embroidered robes of myth, and to shew in naked ugliness the foul thing that is reality, Kuranes sought for beauty alone.1 When truth and experience failed to reveal it, he sought it in fancy and illusion, and found it on his very doorstep, amid the nebulous memories of childhood tales and dreams. "