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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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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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

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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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There is no beauty without some strangeness

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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