Experience Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

“Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.”

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Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower…

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“How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!”

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