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"She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there."

"It's her black wings that make her beautiful."

"How beautiful it is to be stress free and bloom slowly like a flower."

"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork."

"How beautiful it is to hug someone with kindness when he is trying to hurt you!"

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."

"The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside."

"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."
Explore more quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

"As I shivered and brooded on the casting of that brain-blasting shadow, I knew that I had at last pried out one of earth's supreme horors-one of those nameless blights of outer voids whose faint demon scratchings we sometimes hear on the farthest rim of space, yet from which our own finite vision has given us a merciful immunity."

"An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the public at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form."

"The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human mind. It is no accident that the contemplative Egyptians, together with such later poetic spirits as Poe, Gautier, Baudelaire, and Swinburne, were all sincere worshippers of the supple grimalkin."

"Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them."

"Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression."

"It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33 - but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all."

"Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity."

"In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!"

"All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other."
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