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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Frank Herbert • Dune
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
H. P. Lovecraft • H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
there are horrors that the world’s men don’t imagine and fears to endure that human experience doesn’t know.
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
The best of Poe doesn’t date.
Neil Gaiman • The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
Doth Truth come in the dark, and steal on us, and rob us so, and then depart, deaf to all pursuing invocations?
Herman Melville • Pierre; or The Ambiguities
The death of Catharine was already known to him, and that knowledge, as might have been suspected, had destroyed his reason. I had feared nothing less; but now that I beheld the extinction of a mind the most luminous and penetrating that ever dignified the human form, my sensations were fraught with new and insupportable anguish.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
Eidolons