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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
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"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
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"I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about."
"The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable."
"The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe."
"I know always that I am an outsider, a stranger in this century and among those who are still men."
"Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit."
"It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all."
"Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity."
"By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins."
"A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law."
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