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

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Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

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If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

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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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Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

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

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