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1 " For he who passes the gateways always wins a shadow, and never again can he be alone. I "
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2 " life, matter, and vitality, as the earth knows such things, are not necessarily constant; and that time and space do not exist as our waking selves comprehend them. 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. "
3 " When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of spring’s flowering meads; when learning stripped earth of her mantle of beauty, and poets sang no more save of twisted phantoms seen with bleared and inward-looking eyes; when these things had come to pass, and childish hopes had gone away forever, there was a man who travelled out of life on a quest into the spaces whither the world’s dreams had fled. "
4 " scientific study and reflection had taught us that the known universe of three dimensions embraces the merest fraction of the whole cosmos of substance and energy. "
5 " All they ever did was clutch and fly and tickle; that was the way of night-gaunts. "
6 " That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.” Only "
7 " resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark "
8 " The effect was that of a Cyclopean city of no architecture known to man or to human imagination, with vast aggregations of night-black masonry embodying monstrous perversions of geometrical laws and attaining the most grotesque extremes of sinister bizarrerie. There "
9 " Carter did not wish to meet a bhole, so "
10 " better to meet a ghoul, which one can see, than a bhole, which one cannot see. "
11 " he climbed desperately to escape the unendurable nuzzling of that loathsome and overfed bhole "
12 " resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the "
13 " Him Who is not to be Named. "
14 " It was the Yule-rite, older than man and fated to survive him; the primal rite of the solstice and of spring’s promise beyond the snows; the rite of fire and evergreen, light and music. "
15 " Naturally, there were many human bodies washed along by the streams in that tragic period; but those who described these strange shapes felt quite sure that they were not human, despite some superficial resemblances in size and general outline. "
16 " there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. "
17 " The place is not good for the imagination, and does not bring restful dreams at night. "
18 " I have frequently wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of the obscure world to which they belong. Whilst the greater number of our nocturnal visions are perhaps no more than faint and fantastic reflections of our waking experiences—Freud to the contrary with his puerile symbolism—there are still a certain remainder whose immundane and ethereal character permits of no ordinary interpretation, and whose vaguely exciting and disquieting effect suggests possible minute glimpses into a sphere of mental existence no less important than physical life, yet separated from that life by an all but impassable barrier. "
19 " It must, I thought as I viewed it, be the outcome of a fire; but why had nothing new ever grown over those five acres of grey desolation that sprawled open to the sky like a great spot eaten by acid in the woods and fields? "
20 " The trees near it were sickly and stunted, and many dead trunks stood or lay rotting at the rim. "