The past is a pebble in my shoe.

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

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

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There is no beauty without some strangeness

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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.

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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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Invisible things are the only realities.

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

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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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Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed

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