Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

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Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed

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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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Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

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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 is no beauty without some strangeness

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

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