"Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."
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"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls."
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
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"There is no beauty without some strangeness"
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"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."
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"All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire."
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"The believer is happy. The doubter is wise."
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"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."
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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
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"Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute."
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"And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy."
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"I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind."
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"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
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"Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink."
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"A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river."
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"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
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"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."
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"The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame."
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"A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on."
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"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."
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