"And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave."
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"And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."
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"The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God."
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"...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair."
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"The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy."
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"Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them."
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"If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented."
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"A wise man hears one word and understands two."
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"To observe attentively is to remember distinctly."
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"You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders."
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"The past is a pebble in my shoe."
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"In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found."
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"Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore."
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"Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure."
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"Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura."
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"I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd."
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"Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today."
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"To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!"
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"Art is to look at not to criticize."
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"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."
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