All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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