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

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Invisible things are the only realities.

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

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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

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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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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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Art is to look at not to criticize.

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

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