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The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume 1 QUOTES

The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume 1 QUOTES

1 " For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume 1

2 " Transferring in haste, I felt a curious breathlessness as the cars rumbled on through the early afternoon sunlight into territories I had always read of but had never before visited. I knew I was entering an altogether older-fashioned and more primitive New England than the mechanised, urbanised coastal and southern areas where all my life had been spent; an unspoiled, ancestral New England without the foreigners and factory-smoke, billboards and concrete roads, of the sections which modernity has touched. There would be odd survivals of that continuous native life whose deep roots make it the one authentic outgrowth of the landscape—-the continuous native life which keeps alive strange ancient memories, and fertilises the soil for shadowy, marvellous, and seldom-mentioned beliefs. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume 1

3 " Hoje em dia, com o nosso planeta tão convulsionado pelas hostilidades absurdas da humanidade insignificante, é tranquilizador voltar-se para o azul etéreo e contemplar outros mundos, cada um com fenômenos únicos e pitorescos, onde nenhum eco de conflitos ou sofrimentos humanos ressoa. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume 1

4 " He told me to set my watch back an hour, since the northern hill country will have no dealings with new-fangled daylight time schemes. As I did so it seemed to me that I was likewise turning the calendar back a century. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume 1