Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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