They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night

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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 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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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

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If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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

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Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed

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

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