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The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
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I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road.
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I like coffee exceedingly...
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Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.
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It wearied Carter to see how solemnly people tried to make earthly reality out of old myths which every step of their boasted science confuted.
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Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told of the presence of consciousness and will.
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I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
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There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.
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The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.
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