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

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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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And all I loved, I loved alone.

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

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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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Art is to look at not to criticize.

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Invisible things are the only realities.

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