If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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

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There is no beauty without some strangeness

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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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Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed

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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

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

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

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