“Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.”

—  H.P. Lovecraft

Fiction, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Source: The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

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