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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

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

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

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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

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

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