That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POENow this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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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 wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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