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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."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

"To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all."
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