H. P. Lovecraft Quotes About Age

• Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

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  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.45, Arktos

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• I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!

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  Letter to James F. Morton (16 May 1926), in "Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 192), 2000.

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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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  The Call of Cthulhu ch. 1 (1928)

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• The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.

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  "The Allowable Rhyme". Book by H. P. Lovecraft, 1915.

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• Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never a part of anything around me - in everything I am an outsider. Should I find it possible to crawl backward through the Halls of Time to that age which is nearest my own fancy, I should doubtless be bawled out of the coffee-houses for heresy in religion, or else lampooned by John Dennis till I found refuge in the deep, silent Thames, that covers many another unfortunate.

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  Letter to "The Keicomolo" - Kleiner, Cole, and Moe (October 1916), in "Selected Letters I, 1911-1924" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 27), 1964.

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• Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.

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  Dark  

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• I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

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  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “THE BEST OF H. P. LOVECRAFT (Occult & Supernatural Series): Horror Classics: The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, At the Mountains of Madness, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Outsider, In the Vault, The Thing on the Doorstepäó_”, p.222, e-artnow

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