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H. P. Lovecraft

Read through the most famous quotes from H. P. Lovecraft




I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.


— H. P. Lovecraft


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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.


— H. P. Lovecraft


#ask #business #dreams #him #his

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?


— H. P. Lovecraft


#false #notoriously #poets #tales #travellers

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


— H. P. Lovecraft


#indeed #joke #mankind #world

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.


— H. P. Lovecraft


#cats #dark #dogs #ears #howl

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!


— H. P. Lovecraft


#does #everything #instrument #little #man

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.


— H. P. Lovecraft


#black #delving #fascination #form #into

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.


— H. P. Lovecraft


#enthusiasm #fear #flags #i #me

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.


— H. P. Lovecraft


#lore #men #more #ocean #old

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.


— H. P. Lovecraft


#bet #care #end #heaven #i






About H. P. Lovecraft

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Did you know about H. P. Lovecraft?

When dealing with such beings Lovecraft needed a way to provide exposition and build tension without bringing the story to a premature end. As such his stories express a profound indifference to human beliefs and affairs. His political views can be considered as "moderately socialist.

Lovecraft's guiding aesthetic and philosophical principle was what he termed "cosmicism" or "cosmic horror" the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally inimical to the interests of humankind. Lovecraft is the originator of the Cthulhu Mythos story cycle and the Necronomicon a fictional magical textbook of rites and forbidden lore. According to Joyce Carol Oates an award-winning author Lovecraft—as with Edgar Allan Poe in the 19th century—has exerted "an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction".

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