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The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality

Roger Caillois
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I don't like crowds of any kind. A dinner party of more than six people is not, for me, a pleasure. I get less social as I get older... I am very resistant to anything that keeps me away from the business of making these journeys into the fantastique. They are my reason for being on the planet, as far as I can comprehend, and I pursue them to the cost of almost anything.

Clive Barker
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It should be particularly stressed that the fantastic makes no sense in an out-and-out strange world. To imagine the fantastic in it is even impossible. In a world full of marvels the extraordinary loses its power.

Roger Caillois, Au Coeur Du Fantastique
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Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miserly, how wretched! Stingily given, aridly invented, heavily made!Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miserly, how wretched! Stingily given, aridly invented, heavily made!

Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
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I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
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How fathomless the mystery of the Unseen is! We cannot plumb its depths with our feeble senses - with eyes which cannot see the infinitely small or the infinitely great, nor anything too close or too distant, such as the beings who live on a star or the creatures which live in a drop of water... with ears that deceive us by converting vibrations of the air into tones that we can hear, for they are sprites which miraculously change movement into sound, a metamorphosis which gives birth to harmonies which turn the silent agitation of nature into song... with our sense of smell, which is poorer than any dog's... with our sense of taste, which is barely capable of detecting the age of a wine!Ah! If we had other senses which would work other miracles for us, how many more things would we not discover around us!

Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
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A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
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To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.

Peter Straub, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
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The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.

Rosemary Jackson, Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion
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