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Howard Lovecraft

The Outsider

  • dvixsyhas quoted3 years ago
    looks back upon
  • serohas quoted6 years ago
    stepping as I did so from my single bright moment of hope to my blackest convulsion of despair and realization. The nightmare was quick to come, for as I entered, there occurred immediately one of the most terrifying demonstrations I had ever conceived.
  • serohas quoted6 years ago
    My mind, stunned and chaotic as it was, still held the frantic craving for light; and not even the fantastic wonder which had happened could stay my course. I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost. I knew not who I was or what I was, or what my surroundings might be; though as I continued to stumble along I became conscious of a kind of fearsome latent memory that made my progress not wholly fortuitous.
  • serohas quoted6 years ago
    Most demoniacal of all shocks is that of the abysmally unexpected and grotesquely unbelievable.
  • serohas quoted6 years ago
    And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall though I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without ever beholding day.
  • serohas quoted6 years ago
    I felt conscious of youth because I remembered so little.
  • serohas quoted6 years ago
    To me there was nothing grotesque in the bones and skeletons that strewed some of the stone crypts deep down among the foundations.
  • Verónica Cuevashas quoted6 years ago
    and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests.
  • snakeboyservoshas quoted6 years ago
    I know that light is not for me, save that of the moon over the rock tombs of Neb, nor any gaiety save the unnamed feasts of Nitokris beneath the Great Pyramid; yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage.
  • snakeboyservoshas quoted6 years ago
    To me there was nothing grotesque in the bones and skeletons that strewed some of the stone crypts deep down among the foundations.
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