There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of … - Clark Ashton Smith

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This goes out to the followers of the three Abrahamic religions: To the Jews, Christians, and Muslims. It's just a little thing, really. But do you think that when you're done smashing up the world and blowing each other to bits and demanding special privileges while you're at it. . . do you think the rest of us could have our planet back?

Clark Ashton Smith

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.

Carried, Hair, Intervened, Long, Memories

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Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.

Charm, Impossible, Possible, Real

Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.

Bow, Bows, Dream, Dreams, Emperor

Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.

Flower, Growing, Rooted, Simple, Twilight, Vast

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.

Death, Fall, Memories, Strips, Vision