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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Art is to look at not to criticize.

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

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

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

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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

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Invisible things are the only realities.

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

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

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Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

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