I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

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

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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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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.

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Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

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

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