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Quotation from The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents”
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, 'The Call of Cthulhu', Section I (Weird Tales, February 1928)
The famous opening sentence, stating Lovecraft's theme that full knowledge would drive humanity mad.
Citation: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents" — H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, 'The Call of Cthulhu', Section I (Weird Tales, February 1928). (id the-call-of-cthulhu-and-other-weird-stories-q1)
Portrait: H. P. Lovecraft, June 1934, Lucius B. Truesdell, Public domain.
