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H. P. Lovecraft Quotes:

Ocupation: Author

Life: August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937

Birthday: August 20

Death: March 15

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.

- H. P. Lovecraft

source: H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.445, OUP Oxford

topic: Good Life, Hate, Real, Evil Love, Organic Life, Externalities

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