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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: horror, irony
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    tags: fear-of-unknown
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
    tags: books, library, literature, reading, words
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Never Explain Anything”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: comprehension, dark-age, dissociated, dissociation, human-mind, science
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    Joseph Campbell
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: change, life, open-heart, open-mind, resilience
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    Joseph Campbell
    “If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
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    Joseph Campbell
    “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
    tags: hero-s-journey
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    Joseph Campbell
    “If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Joseph Campbell
    “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
    tags: inspirational
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    Joseph Campbell
    “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: cave, fear
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, Creative Mythology
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    Joseph Campbell
    “If you are falling....dive.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
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    Joseph Campbell
    “If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: life
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: inspirational, life-lesson, spirituality
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
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    Joseph Campbell
    “We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: inspirational
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    Joseph Campbell
    “All religions are true but none are literal.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: morality, religion
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
    tags: atheists, believers, metaphor, myth, organized-religion, religion, theists
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: writing
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    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    Michael Crichton
    “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
    ― Michael Crichton, State of Fear
    tags: bigotry, fiction, prejudice, science
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    Michael Crichton
    “It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
    ― Michael Crichton
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    Michael Crichton
    “God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
    tags: science
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    Michael Crichton
    “The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
    tags: ontology
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  • #30
    Michael Crichton
    “No one escapes from life alive.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Congo
    tags: death, life
    190 likes



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