Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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