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Round pegs find round holes, square pegs find square holes. And by the same token, albeit with rather greater difficulty, I am sure that there must somewhere be a corresponding hole for such a peg as proverbial metaphor may dub trapezohedral!

H.P. Lovecraft

In a letter applying for a job
 
Frankly, I cannot conceive how any thoughtful man can really be happy. There is really nothing in the universe to live for, and unless one can dismiss thought and speculation from his mind, he is liable to be engulfed by the very immensity of creation. It is vastly better that he should amuse himself with religion, or any other convenient palliative to reality which comes to hand.

H.P. Lovecraft

In a letter to Kleiner, Cole, and Moe, October 1916
 
Foolish, do I hear you say? Undoubtedly! I had better be a consistent pragmatist: get drunk and confine myself to a happy, swinish, contented little world -- the gutter -- till some policeman's No. 13 boot intrudes upon my philosophic repose.

H.P. Lovecraft

In a letter to Maurice W. Moe, May 15 1918
 
Then I perceived with horror that I was growing too old for pleasure. Ruthless Time had set its fell claw upon me, and I was seventeen. Big boys do not play in toy houses and mock gardens, so I was obliged to turn over my world in sorrow to another and younger boy who dwelt across the lot from me. And since that time I have not delved in the earth or laid out paths and roads. There is too much wistful memory in such procedure, for the fleeting joy of childhood may never be recaptured. Adulthood is hell.

H.P. Lovecraft

In a letter to the Gallomo (Galpin, Lovecraft, and Moe), 1920
 
I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

H.P. Lovecraft

In a letter to Reinhardt Kleiner, April 23 1921
 
What merriment I have is always derived from the satirical principle, and what sadness I have, is not so much personal, as a vast and terrible melancholy at the pain and futility of all existence in a blind and purposeless cosmos.

H.P. Lovecraft

In a letter to Reinhardt Kleiner, May 13 1921
 
Physical life and experience, with the narrowings of artistic vision they create in the majority, are the objects of my most profoud contempt. It is for this reason that I despise Bohemians, who think it essential to art to lead wild lives. My loathing is not from the standpoint of Puritan morality, but from that of aesthetic independence -- I revolt at the notion that physical life is of any value or significance. To me the ideal artist is a gentleman who shows his contempt for life by continuing in the quiet ways of his ancestors, leaving his fancy free to explore refulgent and amazing spheres.

H.P. Lovecraft

In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, May 13 1923
 
I abhor broad prosaic highways with their implications of change, modernity, and decadence, and make for the calm, untainted inner countryside whenever I possibly can.

H.P. Lovecraft

In a letter to Bernard Austin Dwyer, March 3 1927
 
It is the frank & cynical recognition of the inevitable limitations of people in general which makes me absolutely indifferent instead of actively hostile toward mankind.

H.P. Lovecraft

In a letter to Donald Wandrei, March 27 1927
 
Of course, so far as personal taste goes, I'm no lover of humanity. To me cats are in every way more graceful and worthy of respect -- but I don't try to raise my personal bias to the spurious dignity of a dogmatic generality...

H.P. Lovecraft

In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, September 6 1927
 
That is the perennial grief of an architectural antiquarian -- in a city as large as Providence or Boston something quaint is always being demolished in the interest of alleged progress...

H.P. Lovecraft

In a letter to Zealia Brown Reed, September 22 1927
 
One thing I'll say for labour; & that is, that it isn't as offensive as the corresponding mutatory force which now threatens culture in America. I refer to the force of business as a dominating motive in life, & a persistent absorber of the strongest creative energies of the American people.

H.P. Lovecraft

In a letter to Elizabeth Toldridge, June 10 1929
 
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