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• What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.

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  Sleep, Impossible, Nightmare

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• Windows are the eyes of the soulless

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  Eye, Window, Soulless

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• As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people.

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  Race, People, Mind

  "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror". Book by Thomas Ligotti, 2010.

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• What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.

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  Next, Consciousness, Species

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• Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.

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  May, Gray, Existence

  Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.144, Random House

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• But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth.

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  Land, Ego, Needs

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• Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are close to me. And no doubt I project these fears on those around me and those to come, which makes it impossible for me to understand why everyone isn't an antinatalist, just as I have to assume pronatalists can't understand why everyone isn't like them.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Suffering And Death, Doubt, Dying

  Interview with Nathaniel Katz, evilhat.blogspot.ru. September 06, 2011.

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• Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station.

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  Numbers, Fiction, Television

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• The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story is the story. See? Sometimes this is very hard to accept and sometimes too easy. On the one hand, there’s the writer who can’t face his fate: that the telling of a story has nothing at all to do with him; on the other hand, there’s the one who faces it too well: that the telling of the story has nothing at all to do with him

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  Writing, Fate, Hands

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• My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions. That's why I'm here with you. You're smiling again, or rather you're SMIRKING. Funny word, smirk. Rather like an extraterrestrial surname. Simon Smirk. How do you think that sounds?

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  Thinking, Imagination, Sound

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• I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror.

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  Sun, Cold, Horror

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• The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.

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  People, Insecurity, Panic

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• My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

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  Home, Grandfather, My Grandfather

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