"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."

Psychology, Pleasure, Escape, Memory, Isolation

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"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."

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"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."

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"Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream."

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"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."

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"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."

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"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

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"I have no faith in human perfectability. 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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