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  • It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

    "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 70), 2006.
  • Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.

    H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.445, OUP Oxford
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