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c473b66
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Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them
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macabre
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Terry Pratchett |
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05f5a9c
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But we never get back our youth... The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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macabre
dark
inspirational
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Oscar Wilde |
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789d562
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That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.
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macabre
fear
horror
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H.P. Lovecraft |
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fa94159
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When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live.
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macabre
old-ones
lovecraft
h-p-lovecraft
horror
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H.P. Lovecraft |
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a32e6fc
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What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
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macabre
nature
melt
melting
poetic
wind
naked
sun
sunlight
die
dying
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Kahlil Gibran |
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Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?
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macabre
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Sarah Vowell |