Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
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H.P. Lovecraft
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The Call of Cthulhu
Variant: We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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