All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEither 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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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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.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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