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we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy.
H. P. Lovecraft • H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
‘Around the Godde there forms a Shelle of prayers and Ceremonies and Buildings and Priestes and Authority, until at Last the Godde Dies. Ande this maye notte be noticed.’”
Terry Pratchett • Small Gods: A Discworld Novel
“It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon.”
H. P.(Howard Phillips) Lovecraft • The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (72 Novellas and Short Stories With Active Table of Contents)
“I got delayed by an Inquisitor and a dark god,”
Brandon Sanderson • The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn
The sound of their yelling echoed in the temple and reinforced their wildness;
Philip Pullman • His Dark Materials: The Complete Collection: now a major BBC TV series
He paused, put up his single eye–glass, and beheld a boy with a wooden sword and a paper cocked hat, wearing that expression of awed satisfaction with which a child contemplates his work when he has hit some one very hard.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Silet per diem universus, nec sine horrore secretus est; lucet nocturnis ignibus, chorus Aegipanum undique personatur: audiuntur et cantus tibiarum, et tinnitus cymbalorum per oram maritimam.
Arthur Machen • The Great God Pan
Nothing resembling a religion would picture anybody resembling a god as groping like a pigmy in a great cavern, that turned out to be the glove of a giant. That is the glorious ignorance called adventure Thor may have been a great adventurer; but to call him a god is like trying to compare Jehovah with Jack and the Beanstalk.