31 Quotes by Clark Ashton Smith
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Upon the delicate chin you turnedVenus had set her cloven sign.Like embers seen through darkest wineYour unextinguished tresses burned.
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Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.
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There have been times when only a hair’s-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.
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In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.
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All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.
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My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation.
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We don’t know whether they’re going to eat us or elect us for their tribal deities.
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It would seem, O Nushain, that you have doubted your own horoscope,′ said the guide, with a certain irony. ‘However, even a bad astrologer, on occasion, may read the heavens aright. Obey, then, the stars that decreed your journey.
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Lo! I am Beauty’s constant thrall, Must ever on her voice await, And follow through the maze of Fate Her luring, strange and mystical.
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