I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

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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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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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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

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Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

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

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Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed

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

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

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