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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."

"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."

"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."
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"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."

"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."

"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."

"The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."

"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."
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