Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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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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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

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If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there

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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

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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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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

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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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Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed

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