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

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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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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.

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

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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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

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

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