It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial s… - H. P. Lovecraft
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It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which give us such worlds of salutary illusion. That is—since nothing means anything in itself, we must preserve the proximate and arbitrary background which makes things around us seem as if they did mean something. In other words, we are either Englishmen or nothing whatever.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (20 August 1890 – 15 March 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, known for combining these three genres within single narratives and best remembered for the creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. He is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, to be one of the greatest Horror writers.
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Ward Phillips
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft
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Howard P. Lovecraft
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I had evoked - and the book was indeed all I had suspected.
Nothing is so intimately a part of a man as his library. It contains just what the possessor wants to look at most often, and comes to form his window or gateway to the larger cosmos.
For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...
